[arch-general] kde4 Tip for Desktop Effects "Animation duration" timings
Listmates, When configuring many of the individual desktop effects, there is a field called "Animation duration" or "Rotation duratio" (the cube) which are the timing/delay (in miliseconds) for the effect transitions which is set to "default". I have found the "default" to be incredibly low. Increasing the "Default Animation" to ~270 really help the appearance of the effects. You will need to adjust this value for your hardware, etc.., but I have found ~270 to work well on several boxes. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
[arch-general] KDE-unstable - kapps crash on start (konqueror, kmail, etc.)
Listmates: On my i686 box I am experiencing crashes for many of the default 'k'apps like konqueror, kmail, etc. I have provided the backtraces to kde.org. I went back and installed the kdemod3 kde3.5 to have access to the kde3.5 versions of the same apps within kde4.3. I don't know if the Arch developers are interested in me providing the backtraces or not. Let me know if you want them and I will send them in. The remainder of kde43 is working well. Still some quirks, no doubt, but impressive. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] Weird OpenOffice Disappearing Menu and Toolbar Text?
On or about Tuesday 02 June 2009 at approximately 13:54:36 David Rosenstrauch composed: > David C. Rankin wrote: > > Thanks DR, > > > > I'll play around with the them and GTK/QT Style settings and see if I > > can make it work. How are you setting your KDE Control Panel -> > > Appearance -> GTK Styles and Fonts? > > GTK Style: Raleigh > GTK Fonts: Use my KDE fonts in GTK applications > > HTH, > > DR Well, I have the menus and combo-boxes stable now. In QT Config, I set the style to clearlooks and also to GTK+ and the disappearing text stopped. Dunno why the plastik style causes the problem but I have a workable solution now. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] My D-Bus/Hal/PolicyKit Fix - Useful for Admin Users
On or about Tuesday 02 June 2009 at approximately 16:12:17 Vinzenz Vietzke composed: > Isn't your approach similar to > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL#Permission_Denied ? Or am I > totally wrong? No, you are right! That's what I read through before throwing 90% of the specific stuff mentioned there out the window in favor of the brute force approach. The problem with the solutions on the page is they appear to be shooting at the moving target of the kernel/d-bus/hal/policykit "standard setup". Wading in a bit you soon realize you can set up an infinite (almost) set of policies by applying different pieces of the policy at different levels of the scheme. Some can be applied at the hal level others at the policy kit level, etc. I picked apart the suse scheme looking at their solution and there just wasn't a "standard" setup. You can accomplish the same thing 5 different ways when you add user and group memberships, the deny/allow configurations and on and on. For a single user machine (my laptop in my case), I just want things to work when I plug them in. I want drives automounted and I want removables recognized. I don't care for the elaborate multiuser policies that may apply and be useful, in what? -- 5% of all installs. So you are not totally wrong, I did make good use of the wiki, then politely threw 90% of it out ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
[arch-general] My D-Bus/Hal/PolicyKit Fix - Useful for Admin Users
Listmates, Since I continually fight d-bus and hal on hotplugging issues, I thought I would pass along the fix that worked for me. Since this is a full access fix, I decided it shouldn't be posted to the wiki. Let me know if you think differently or feel free to post it yourself. Here is what worked for me for hotplugging usb drives, etc... Granting Full Access to a Single User: To grant access to a single user (say yourself maybe), modify the following 2 files as follows. For example purposes, I am granting myself username "david" complete access to all d-bus/hal devices: /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf: /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf: Works fine here. Let me know if you see any real gotchas about this approach. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] [radeonhd] [PATCH] PM patches: logic fix, feature, cleaning, memory downclocking
On or about Friday 29 May 2009 at approximately 00:01:26 Rafał Miłecki
composed:
> 2009/5/29 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. :
> > Rafał,
> >
> > That's what I needed to know. I'm am not familiar with 'git' and
> > the
> >
> > git checkout -t -b downclocking origin/master
> > git am ~/archlinux/radeonhd/patches/*patch
> >
> > parts were the parts I knew nothing about. I'll pull the patches, apply
> > and report back. Something really has to give here. The heat is
> > unbearable. To get the actual temp data, I have a digital multimeter with
> > a great surface temperature probe on it ( Craftsman Model No. 82400 ) and
> > I took the temperature readings on the left palm rest and left fan
> > discharge of my laptop with the radeonhd driver active. The results:
> >
> > Left Palm Rest Temp: 96 Deg. F
> >
> > Left Fan Discharge: 147 Deg. F
> >
> > The inside of this box is cooking That's with:
> >
> > Option "ForceLowPowerMode"
> > Option "LowPowerModeEngineClock" "14"
> >
> > I'll keep my fingers crossed and report back.
>
> Nice, tests with your multimeter would be absolutely great. You may
> also try to reduce EngineClock later. For example change it from
> 14 to 12. If it doesn't cause any corruptions you can still
> try decreasing that. Don't worry about values you may use 13,
> 139998, 139997, end so on.AtomBIOS will round it to something
> acceptable.
>
> --
> Rafał Miłecki
Rafał, (also cc'ed to archlinux list for those interested)
Here is a quick Summary of what I did:
23:54 alchemy:~/archlinux/apps/radeonhd> git checkout -t -b downclocking
origin/master
Branch downclocking set up to track remote branch master from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'downclocking'
23:55 alchemy:~/archlinux/apps/radeonhd> git am patches/*patch
Applying: PM: fix broken engine clock setting logic
/home/david/archlinux/apps/radeonhd/.git/rebase-apply/patch:30: trailing
whitespace.
"calculated engine clock at %ldHz\n",
warning: 1 line adds whitespace errors.
Applying: PM: add RHDGetDefaultMemoryClock
Applying: PM: get rid of EnableForced field
Applying: PM: add memory downclocking. Commented out for now.
/home/david/archlinux/apps/radeonhd/.git/rebase-apply/patch:28: trailing
whitespace.
"calculated memory clock at %ldHz\n",
warning: 1 line adds whitespace errors.
23:56 alchemy:~/archlinux/apps/radeonhd> find . -name 'rhd_pm.c'
./src/rhd_pm.c
23:57 alchemy:~/archlinux/apps/radeonhd> vi src/rhd_pm.c
#if 1
unsigned long defaultMemory = RHDGetDefaultMemoryClock(rhdPtr);
if (defaultMemory) {
Pm->ForcedMemoryClock = defaultMemory / 2;
xf86DrvMsg(rhdPtr->scrnIndex, X_INFO, "ForceLowPowerMode: "
"calculated memory clock at %ldHz\n",
Pm->ForcedEngineClock);
}
Reboot & check /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) RADEONHD: version 1.2.5, built from git branch downclocking, commit
0de8b484 + changes
The current log file is at:
http://www.3111skyline.com/download/linux/radeonhd/downclock/Xorg.0.log.29001734
I haven't pulled any additional temperatures for comparison because
there
wouldn't be that much difference, it's still HOT. Looking through the log
file, it is quite a coincidence that the downclocking chose 14 as the
memory clock downclock because that was exactly what I had been setting with
the:
Option "LowPowerModeEngineClock" "14"
At least we know that the patch applies OK and that it has the desired
effect
on the memory clock. Now if we can just figure out what else we need to power
down to get the temps under control, we will be home free!
Thank you for your patch. As I said before, I have the perfect box for
testing, so let me know when you have the next one ready and I'll be happy to
test it.
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Rankin Law Firm, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
Telephone: (936) 715-9333
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Re: [arch-general] KDE stoped working
On or about Wednesday 27 May 2009 at approximately 15:08:51 Nicolas Bigaouette composed: > Did that too, without success... > > 2009/5/27 Andrea Scarpino > > > On 27/05/2009, Nicolas Bigaouette wrote: > > > So the problem is not that it is failing to load i810 or vesa, the > > > server just tries to load them but they are not used. > > > > Yes, I am stupid -.-' you said KDM works, so X works. > > > > try to move ~/.kde4 dir to somewhere and start kde > > > > -- > > Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino > > Arch Linux Developer Threads like this do not build my confidence for making the jump from kde3 to kde4. Imagine, one crash or weird boot up and you get 5 hours of dorking with "why won't my kde4 start." Nicolas, I've save a few threads on this from the other list, I'll pick through them and if I get anything other than the normal move .kde4 and force a rebuild of the config, I'll post it here. Good luck, and remember -- File the bug report -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] Koffice help won't work in kde3 - Any suggestions?
On or about Sunday 24 May 2009 at approximately 12:19:25 ludovic coues composed: > As far as I know, Koffice has never reach the stable stage a the > moment. Maybe cause dev have jump from RC to "working on KDE4 > version". > So I don't know if you will found any stable koffice apps for KDE3. > > Like Grigorios Bouzakis have said, I guess it's time for an upgrade to > KDE4. I'm using it atm, and I have no trouble. I've just no kde > graphical tools for network. > But for someone editing his /etc/group file by hand with vim in place > of vigr, I think it's not a problem ;-) You are right, it is time for an upgrade (kicking and screaming) to kde4. I'm just hesitant about the time involved to write/research all the bugs related to disappearing widgets and plasmoids. I have had 2 prior kde 4 installs (4.01 on openSuSE 11.0 and 4.1 on openSuSE 11.1) both were disasters at best. But they were the source of some rather "unique" screenshots: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/openSUSE_11.1/compizcrash-blackcube.jpg (just think through what it took to pull that screenshot off ;-) But with support waning for kde3 and with app development for kde3 all but extinct, the inevitable looms on the horizon. The real killer, and it is also the real killer for Arch on my laptop, is the lack of a fglrx driver. Currently with kde3 on openSuSE 11.0, I have the last good fglrx driver for my hardware. With the advent of xorg 7.4 in kde4, all fglrx drivers subsequent to Sept. 08 haven't worked on my box (Radeon X1200). I'm writing this from Arch on my laptop with the radeonhd driver and I keep having to lift my left hand up off the palm rest to keep it from burning. (No shit, it's HOT) Downclocking in the radeonhd driver and remaining powerdown of unused portions of the gpu is getting better, but it can't compare to the downclocking/powerdown of the fglrx driver. With the fglrx driver, my laptop stays cool and it is usable. Without it, I'm going to need to glue 1/4 inch neoprene pad to the palm rest, or wear gloves, to be able to use it. That is even with my gpu manually downclocked in my xorg.conf to roughly 30% of its normal clock speed (400MHz) with: Option "ForceLowPowerMode" Option "LowPowerModeEngineClock" "14" Enough of the rambling, I'll give kde4 a go. Last question, which is the best way to install it? kdemod or the default kde4 from the Arch repos. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] Network Shutdown Prior to umount on cifs mounts hangs shutdown
On or about Tuesday 26 May 2009 at approximately 13:10:04 Jordy van Wolferen composed: > On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 03:58 -0500, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > On or about Friday 22 May 2009 at approximately 02:12:18 Biru Ionut composed: > > > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > > > Listmates, > > > > > > > > I am experiencing a hang on shutdown with Arch every time I > > > > don't > > > > manually unmount any samba/cifs shares before shutting down. This is > > > > due to the shutdown sequence killing my network connection before > > > > unmounting the samba shares. This basicly leaves all samba shares > > > > mounted and [Busy] which frustrates the unmount filesystems call late > > > > in the shutdown sequence. > > > > > > > > Is there any way to move the network shutdown until after samba > > > > shares are unmounted in the shutdown sequence. Or conversely, move or > > > > add a samba/cifs shares unmount to the sequence at a time before the > > > > network shuts down? > > > > > > add netfs to daemon list. > > > > Thanks Biru, will give it a go and report back. > > I made a bug report about this problem: > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13622 Adding netfs to the daemon list worked like a charm. No more stuck cifs mounts... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] calender pgm
On or about Friday 22 May 2009 at approximately 00:01:57 Baho Utot composed: > On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 22:56 -0500, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > On or about Wednesday 20 May 2009 at approximately 07:20:10 pm Gerardo > > > > Exequiel Pozzi composed: > > > Baho Utot wrote: > > > > I am looking for a calander program like the one in evolution but is > > > > a standalone or web based > > > > > > > > Any Suggestions? > > > > > > Hi Baho > > > > > > Maybe this is you are searching: > > > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6113 [ community/sunbird ] > > > > > > Good Luck! > > > > For a fantastic web-based/(mysql,php,apache backend) calendar/groupware > > package, go download eGroupware (www.egroupware.org). I have used it for > > several years now and it is truly fantastic. You can then access your > > calendar, contacts, etc. from your browser or from kontact/kmail in kde. > > It's not open source I don't need it > > Thanks any way What are you talking about?? "In 2003 eGroupWare devided to an own project with the intension to continue development more open and community stered. Since March 2005 eGroupWare has a constitution which guaranties freedom and security to the community." -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] Network Shutdown Prior to umount on cifs mounts hangs shutdown
On or about Friday 22 May 2009 at approximately 02:12:18 Biru Ionut composed: > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > Listmates, > > > > I am experiencing a hang on shutdown with Arch every time I don't > > manually unmount any samba/cifs shares before shutting down. This is due > > to the shutdown sequence killing my network connection before unmounting > > the samba shares. This basicly leaves all samba shares mounted and [Busy] > > which frustrates the unmount filesystems call late in the shutdown > > sequence. > > > > Is there any way to move the network shutdown until after samba shares > > are unmounted in the shutdown sequence. Or conversely, move or add a > > samba/cifs shares unmount to the sequence at a time before the network > > shuts down? > > add netfs to daemon list. Thanks Biru, will give it a go and report back. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
[arch-general] Network Shutdown Prior to umount on cifs mounts hangs shutdown
Listmates, I am experiencing a hang on shutdown with Arch every time I don't manually unmount any samba/cifs shares before shutting down. This is due to the shutdown sequence killing my network connection before unmounting the samba shares. This basicly leaves all samba shares mounted and [Busy] which frustrates the unmount filesystems call late in the shutdown sequence. Is there any way to move the network shutdown until after samba shares are unmounted in the shutdown sequence. Or conversely, move or add a samba/cifs shares unmount to the sequence at a time before the network shuts down? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] calender pgm
On or about Wednesday 20 May 2009 at approximately 07:20:10 pm Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi composed: > Baho Utot wrote: > > I am looking for a calander program like the one in evolution but is a > > standalone or web based > > > > Any Suggestions? > > Hi Baho > > Maybe this is you are searching: > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6113 [ community/sunbird ] > > Good Luck! For a fantastic web-based/(mysql,php,apache backend) calendar/groupware package, go download eGroupware (www.egroupware.org). I have used it for several years now and it is truly fantastic. You can then access your calendar, contacts, etc. from your browser or from kontact/kmail in kde. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] libdrm stuck at 2.4.9
On or about Wednesday 20 May 2009 at approximately 08:25:37 am Damjan Georgievski composed: > Does anyone know why the i686 version of libdrm is stuck at version > 2.4.9 (the x86_64 is up-to-date at 2.4.11)? > http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=libdrm > > I don't mind it much, since I've compiled my own package, but each > time I try to -Syu pacman wants to downgrade to 2.4.9 and it's a bit > annoying :) Damjan, I need to add this to the wiki, but for the radeonhd driver, I just got done with the process. Here is my cliff's note version: Dependencies for building: pacman -Sy libdrm lib32-libdrm Get and build drm, copy new libs to proper location: git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/drm drm cd drm/linux-core git checkout -b r6xx-r7xx-support origin/r6xx-r7xx-support make radeon.o drm.o (*as root*) sudo cp radeon.ko /lib/modules/2.6.29-ARCH/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon.ko sudo cp drm.ko /lib/modules/2.6.29-ARCH/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/drm.ko Get build and install the latest radeonhd driver: git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd radeonhd/ cd radeonhd/ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr make (*as root*) make install (REBOOT) **The radeon driver is notorius for leaving bits of itself in memory even after rmmod and modprobe..., so just reboot. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] hal has lost its mind again.
On or about Wednesday 20 May 2009 at approximately 04:00:48 am bardo composed: > 2009/5/20 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. : > > On or about Tuesday 19 May 2009 at approximately 03:33:03 bardo composed: > >> 2009/5/18 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. : > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> I think this may be your problem. I searched some time ago and found > >> out PolicyKit didn't support group matches. A quick look to the > >> PolicyKit.conf(5) man page seems to confirm this is still the case. > >> Now, I don't know if an invalid entry could invalidate the whole > >> config, but it's worth a try. > >> > >> Corrado > > > > Corrado, > > > > You and I may be saying the same thing for two different circumstances. > > Admin_auth certainly allows both user and group auths for actions (man 5 > > PolicyKit.conf): > > > > define_admin_auth > > I wasn't saying you can't use "group" as an attribute for > "define_admin_auth", I was saying you can't use it as an attribute for > "match". So at least that rule won't work, I tried it before. Now, I > don't know how PolicyKit deals with wrong parameters, but in the worst > case it could treat the whole file as invalid, and that could be why > your *other* rules don't work. > > I hope I made myself clearer this time :) > > Corrado Yep, I'll give Policy kit another shot when I pop the archlinux drive back in. If Policy Kit is ignoring the whole file (which it shouldn't do, but seems like it is), then that should be logged somewhere. I have been through everything.log and messages.log, etc. and there isn't any message like that. If it isn't logging rejections, then we need to find a way to have it do so. It would sure make troubleshooting policy kit problems a whole lot easier. Thank you for your help.
[arch-general] :: Starting acpid -- acpid: can't open /proc/acpi/event: Device or resource busy
Listmates, I am chasing down an issue with the radeonhd driver to force downclocking of the gpu. In my Xog.0.log I am receiving the message: (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory) I have installed acpid, but acpid will not start and gives the following error: [10:24 alchemy:/home/david] # /etc/rc.d/acpid start :: Starting acpid [BUSY] acpid: can't open /proc/acpi/event: Device or resource busy [FAIL] What's the trick with acpid? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] Building local repo - eliminating dups - why some new x86_64?
On or about Tuesday 19 May 2009 at approximately 08:14:13 Andrei Thorp composed: > Hey, > > We see people trying to make an Arch repo mirror to save themselves > bandwidth. I think that doesn't really make too much sense. Instead, > it seems much better to implement a download proxy. The way this works > is that all traffic is routed through a computer which backs up stuff > that passes through it. When a computer on the network asks for a file > that's been downloaded previously, there is no need to go into the > Internet. > > That seems like a great thing to use for Arch packages, as well as a > lot of stuff really. Think about how much faster some websites and > stuff can load if you already have all the common images downloaded to > your LAN. > > Here's a link. > > http://www.squid-cache.org/ > > -AT > > (Man.. I really want to set up a Linux router box...) Now that looks like a clever solution. Which is what I am essentially trying to do, but without the "proxy mechanism" serving the files. I have several servers, one is my 1st Arch box x86_64 and my laptop which is x86_64. The present main server is an older openSuSE box. What I was wanting to do was to update the Arch server, then move the cache to /home/backup/archlinux, share that dir either by http, ftp, or both. Then it seemed like a simple thing just to point my laptop to the /home/backup/archlinux dir on the server, edit pacman.conf and put the update the server line at the top and then pull updates to my laptop from the other archbox. The only issue I encountered in the thought process was handling multiple versions on the server which was solved with a bit of bash scripting. It squid was involved, then wouldn't the "Which duplicate problem" still apply from the proxy?? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] hal has lost its mind again.
On or about Tuesday 19 May 2009 at approximately 03:33:03 bardo composed: > 2009/5/18 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. : > > > > > > > > I think this may be your problem. I searched some time ago and found > out PolicyKit didn't support group matches. A quick look to the > PolicyKit.conf(5) man page seems to confirm this is still the case. > Now, I don't know if an invalid entry could invalidate the whole > config, but it's worth a try. > > Corrado Corrado, You and I may be saying the same thing for two different circumstances. Admin_auth certainly allows both user and group auths for actions (man 5 PolicyKit.conf): define_admin_auth This element is used to specify the meaning of "authenticate as administrator". It is normally used at the top-level but can also be used deep inside a number of match elements for conditional behavior. There can only be a single attribute in each define_admin_auth element. POSIX Extended Regular Expression syntax is not supported in the value part, however multiple values to match on can be separated with the bar (|) character. The following attributes are supported: user Administrator authentication means authenticate as the given user(s). If no define_admin_auth element is given, the default is to use user="root" e.g. administrator authentication mean authenticate as the super user. group Administrator authentication means that any user in the groups matching the given value can be used to authenticate. Typically, on a system with the root account disabled one wants to use something like group="wheel" to e.g. enable all UNIX users in the UNIX group wheel to be able to authentication whenever administrator authentication is required. The strange thing is that I can specify myself or the wheel group as an admin with auth privileges and policy kit still doesn't allow access. I haven't had time to play with it anymore yet after DR sent his config over, but I'll let you know. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] Koffice help won't work in kde3 - Any suggestions?
On or about Tuesday 19 May 2009 at approximately 02:59:02 Jan de Groot composed: > On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 02:51 -0500, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > Yes, that is the total 22 byte contents that crashed kmail. And this > > is a RC > > release??? > > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14698 > > I think that says all. KOffice 2.0RC isn't a release candidate, and 2.0 > isn't a stable usable release. Yes, I saw that, but the latest version is a "Release Candidate 1" -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
[arch-general] kde dark themes
kdeusers, If you haven't tried a dark theme for your kde desktop yet, you are missing out on some really cool looks. I toyed with dark themes over the years, but never really found one that worked. After being inspired to try again by senior Rosenstrauch posted one to the list, I took another look and came up with something I really like. It consists of color-themes for kde, emerald, and kate/kwrite. Other than that you just need to change the foreground color for konqueror and any of your web browsers, etc. I'll just post the links to the themes since you can't post it all here. Give it a shot, I bet you will like it. Small screenshots of the desktop theme and kicker background: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kde/screenshots/kde-dark-theme.jpg http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kde/screenshots/kickersteel.jpg kde color-schemes (import under kde control center -> colors): http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kde/color-themes/dcr-Blue.kcsrc emerald theme for compiz (import in emerald theme manager): http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/emerald/dcr%20Dark%20Blue-Gray.emerald kate/kwrite/quanta color scheme (put in ~/.kde/share/config): http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kde/kateschemarc A kicker background (kde control center -> Desktop -> Panel -> Appearance): http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kde/kicker/kickersteelarch2.png There are a few alternate themes and backgrounds in the above directories, so you can pick and choose if you like. And DR, since you started this whole thing, and I appreciate it, if you notice the "R" icon on my kicker panel that is set atop flames, I've put two sizes on the server (40x40 and 140x140) just in case you have a use for them ;-) See: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kde/icons/ -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] Koffice help won't work in kde3 - Any suggestions?
On or about Tuesday 19 May 2009 at approximately 02:51:09 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. composed: > > OOOH, > > This is much worse than I thought. kword will not even open a text file > without crashing. Where does this bug go? Arch, kdemod or kde?. I seems > like it should go to Arch because there is something wildly incompatible > between the koffice build and kde3. Here is the additional kcrash backtract > from trying to open the text file if that will help sort out where the bug > should go. Thanks. > > Also, here is the *contents* of the 1-line txt file kword crashed trying > to open: > > 2008-03-08a-MERGED.txt > > Yes, that is the total 22 byte contents that crashed kmail. And this is a > RC release??? Testing on kspread, kpresent and karbon14 went much better. Ironically, kspread had no problem with the text file that cratered kword. However, there is another wicked little issue with those apps. For some reason they each cause flashes and screen artifacts with my laptop and radeonhd driver. I have been using my laptop near continually for several weeks with arch and the radeonhd driver and the screen/display was never a freaky (for lack of better words) as it was with the koffice apps open. I have closed them to compose this messagee and all is well again. Reality rears its ugly head: KDE3 + KDE4 Runtime Apps = Nothing but trouble -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] Building local repo - eliminating dups - why some new x86_64?
On or about Tuesday 19 May 2009 at approximately 01:31:46 Allan McRae composed: snip > > You might want to look into this: http://xyne.archlinux.ca/info/pkgd > > > > > > > > Pre pacman-3.0 (I think), the architecture was not included in the file > name. Anything in the [community] repo still will not have the > architecture name as the [community] repo scripts do not handle it yet. > > Allan Allan, Thanks, at least I know I didn't mix apples and oranges. Thanks for the link as well. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] Koffice help won't work in kde3 - Any suggestions?
On or about Tuesday 19 May 2009 at approximately 02:42:40 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. composed: > Listmates, > > I installed koffice and attempted to open an openoffice (.odt) document > and kword crashed immediately. Next I opened kword again to read through > the help file and any notes, and the help doesn't seem to work either: > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/koffice.jpg > > The backtrace for the kword crash is: > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/kword.kcrash > > Is there a work-around that will let me get the help file working? It > looks to be a kde3 desktop/kde4 runtime issue. Any help appreciated. OOOH, This is much worse than I thought. kword will not even open a text file without crashing. Where does this bug go? Arch, kdemod or kde?. I seems like it should go to Arch because there is something wildly incompatible between the koffice build and kde3. Here is the additional kcrash backtract from trying to open the text file if that will help sort out where the bug should go. Thanks. Also, here is the *contents* of the 1-line txt file kword crashed trying to open: 2008-03-08a-MERGED.txt Yes, that is the total 22 byte contents that crashed kmail. And this is a RC release??? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
[arch-general] Koffice help won't work in kde3 - Any suggestions?
Listmates, I installed koffice and attempted to open an openoffice (.odt) document and kword crashed immediately. Next I opened kword again to read through the help file and any notes, and the help doesn't seem to work either: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/koffice.jpg The backtrace for the kword crash is: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/kword.kcrash Is there a work-around that will let me get the help file working? It looks to be a kde3 desktop/kde4 runtime issue. Any help appreciated. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
[arch-general] Building local repo - eliminating dups - why some new x86_64?
Listmates,
I'm building a local repo for boxes to update via the lan instead of
redownloading. I have my repo on my local server as:
arch/
x86/
x86_64/
I have moved all files for my two x86_64 boxes to the arch/x86_64 dir
and I
am filtering with a script to eliminate dups by moving the lesser numbered
packages to arch/x86_64/oldpkgs. Testing the script before the actual move of
packages, I ran across this anomaly in some filenames: (script output) [1]
ttf-isabella-1.003-3.pkg.tar.gz -> oldpkgs
ttf-isabella-1.003-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
tunepimp-0.5.3-5.pkg.tar.gz -> oldpkgs
tunepimp-0.5.3-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
tzdata-2009f-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz -> oldpkgs
tzdata-2009g-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
unrar-3.8.5-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz -> oldpkgs
unrar-3.9.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
As shown above, there are multiple packages where the earlier version
did
*not* contain the x86_64 designation where the current package now does. Are
these the same packages? If so why did earlier packages not have the x86_64
and when was the architecture added? Are all packages now going to have the
architecture specified?
Footnotes:
[1] Filtering done by a simple look ahead and the output created as follows:
PKGFILES=( $(ls -1 /home/backup/archlinux/x86_64) )
for ((i=0;i<${#pkgfil...@]}-1;i++)); do
if [[ ${PKGFILES[$i]%%-[[:digit:]]*} ==
${PKGFILES[$i+1]%%-[[:digit:]]*} ]];
then
echo -e "${PKGFILES[$i]} -> oldpkgs\n${PKGFILES[$i+1]}\n"
fi
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510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
Telephone: (936) 715-9333
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Re: [arch-general] hal has lost its mind again.
On or about Monday 18 May 2009 at approximately 12:42:41 David Rosenstrauch composed: > > BTW, maybe it's not sufficient to restart hal, since theis isn't > technically a HAL file, but rather a policy kit file. So I'd suggest > logging out and then in again after the change. > > HTH, > > DR Well, I guess that would be yet another bug in PolicyKit. Per the PolicyKit.conf man page: Changes to this configuration file are immediately propagated to running processes using the PolicyKit library. If the configuration file is invalid, processes using this library will log this fact to the system logger and the library will only only return no as the answer to processes using it. Of all the changes I've made, no errors logged so it should be happily propagating, ... or fornicating, ... or whatever PolicyKit does to my system ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] hal has lost its mind again.
On or about Monday 18 May 2009 at approximately 09:48:00 David Rosenstrauch composed: > > > > What I don't get is this (from PolicyKit(5)): ALLOW EVERYTHING The users "davidz" and "bateman" are allowed to do any action: I have: I'm david, so what in the heck is the problem :-( -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] hal has lost its mind again.
On or about Monday 18 May 2009 at approximately 09:48:00 David Rosenstrauch composed: > > > > AAARRRGGHH! Still no joy: org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result) (yes, I restarted hal ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] hal has lost its mind again.
On or about Monday 18 May 2009 at approximately 09:48:00 David Rosenstrauch
composed:
> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote:
> > On or about Sunday 17 May 2009 at approximately 03:51:10 David C. Rankin,
> >
> >>Another interesting note. When I inserted the card, there was no entry
> >> created in /media. Now 10 minutes later after I have been copying the
> >> photos, etc., the mount of /dev/mmcblk0p1 has *appeared* mounted on
> >> /media/disk? Huh?
> >>
> >>I can't tell you when it appeared, but I can tell you that for at least
> >> 4-5 minutes. So why the initial error and why the magical appearance
> >> after the error telling me it wasn't going to be mounted? What to check
> >> for more info?
> >
> > Here is the deal,
> >
> > When I stick the card in, as my normal user I can't access the device
> > shown under "Services" "Storage Media" and there is no "disk" entry in
> > /media.
> >
> > If I start konqueror running as root and then access "Services" "Storage
> > Media" and the SD card (/dev/mmcblk0p1 in this case), Presto the device
> > automatically appears as "disk" under /media and then I *can* access it
> > (rw) as my normal user. What gives? What permissions are stuck?
>
> Short answer:
>
> Use this for your /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf:
>
>
>
> 1.0//EN"
> "http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/PolicyKit/1.0/config.dtd";>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Long answer:
>
> See: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=542472
>
>
> I have to say, I'm not very fond of this new console-kit/policy-kit
> stuff being the default in hal now. I far prefer the simplicity of
> standard unix groups and permissions.
>
> DR
DR, thanks!
I guess I'll like Policy Kit once I make friends with it, but it sure was
a whole lot easier just issuing the 'mount /dev/whatever /media/whatever'
command. It looks like I just didn't have enough in PolicyKit.conf. I had the
following:
http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/PolicyKit/1.0/config.dtd";>
Why in the heck the following wasn't good enough escapes me at present:
That's says let *me* do anything with anything (twice I might add). I guess in
addition to giving yourself global authorization you also have to give
yourself specific authorization as well.
Also, why do you have .eject-removable commented out?
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510 Ochiltree Street
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[arch-general] error dumped to terminal: kdeinit4: ... /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 on kdemod3?
Listmates, Here is a curious one. I am getting KDE4 errors dumped back to the screen on my KDE3 (kdemod3) screen hours after kdiff3 was run from the terminal? Here is what is getting dumped back to my terminal through stderr on my x86_64 install: kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 kbuildsycoca4 running... kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/kde4/koffice.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KBuildServiceFactory::createEntry: Invalid Service : "/usr/share/applications/kde4/koffice.desktop" kbuildsycoca4(25149) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Categories in "/usr/share/applications/opera.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon). kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/scribus.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KBuildServiceFactory::createEntry: Invalid Service : "/usr/share/applications/scribus.desktop" Anybody ever seen something like this before. It looks like it will be a kdemod issue related to the fact that kdiff3 was built against the kde4 runtime, but I thought I would ask hear to see if anyone else has seen something like this before? I have a bug open with kdemod: http://www.chakra-project.org/bugs/showreport.php?bugid=271 where additional details can be found. The times associated with running kdiff3 and then the above error messages have me confused. Specifically I ran kdiff3 and got the following output on stdout at 2:12 am: 02:12 alchemy:~/tmp/cursor/xcursorgen-1.0.2/mycursors> kdiff3 QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/klauncher kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kded4 kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 kbuildsycoca4 running... kbuildsycoca4(16647) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/opt/kde/share/applications/kde/k3b.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon). kbuildsycoca4(16647) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/opt/kde/share/applications/kde/filelight.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon). Then hours later, I received the stderr messages: [05:15 archangel:~/tmp] # kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kconf_update kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 kbuildsycoca4 running... kbuildsycoca4 (21983)/kdecore (KService) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/kde4/koffice.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line [09:05 archangel:~/tmp] # kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 kbuildsycoca4 running... kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/kde4/koffice.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line Now I'm not trying to run kdeinit4, that just what is coming back trough stderr and my prompt just happens to have a timestamp in it to help gage time. Is there anything I can do with kdiff3 to prevent the call to kdeinit4? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] hal has lost its mind again.
On or about Monday 18 May 2009 at approximately 05:27:02 Alessandro Doro composed: > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 05:05:09AM -0500, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > When I stick the card in, as my normal user I can't access the device > > shown under "Services" "Storage Media" and there is no "disk" entry in > > /media. > > I usually have to refresh the window (F5) to make removable devices > appear in system:/media inside kdemod3 konqueror, regardless of the > hal/policykit mount problems. Alessandro, Thanks. But in this case with kdemod3 the card shows up in system:/media (or what I've been calling media:/ [not /media]) my card appears instantly and disappears as soon as I remove it. So I dunno, there is something else going on here. I'll find it, but if anyone else has a clue, please pass it along. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] Howto create initial xorg.conf for intel 915?
On or about Monday 18 May 2009 at approximately 05:00:48 李业 composed: > Without xorg.conf, UXA of intel card would work defaultly. In my case > it's all going fine~ You can check Xorg.log.0 in /var/log/. > > BTW, I'm using intel X4500 MHD. Hmm, Leeyee, On this dell box with a 915G, the default w/o and xorg.conf and tweaks is EXA Accell: (II) intel(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) 915G (--) intel(0): Chipset: "915G" (--) intel(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xC000 (--) intel(0): IO registers at addr 0xDFF0 (WW) intel(0): libpciaccess reported 0 rom size, guessing 64kB (==) intel(0): Using EXA for acceleration So it looks like I will need the xorg.conf after all. Thanks for your help in pointing me in the right direction. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] Howto create initial xorg.conf for intel 915?
On or about Monday 18 May 2009 at approximately 05:06:28 Jan de Groot composed: > On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 04:51 -0500, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > Listmates: > > > > I have been throught http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_Graphics, > > and even added the section on howto calculate your VideoRam value, but I > > didn't find anything about generating an initial xorg.conf for the intel > > card. > > > > Currently I have no xorg.conf and things are working, but not as fast as > > they could. I would like to configure the card to use UXA accell, but I > > need an xorg.conf to tweak. Anybody know a quick way to create one? > > > > Thanks. > > Xorg -configure > Then move /root/xorg.conf.new to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add: > Option "AccelMethod" "UXA" > To the section of your videocard. > > No need to set other things like videoram, etc. Jan, Leeyee Thank you both. That's just what I needed. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] hal has lost its mind again.
On or about Sunday 17 May 2009 at approximately 03:51:10 David C. Rankin, > Another interesting note. When I inserted the card, there was no entry > created in /media. Now 10 minutes later after I have been copying the > photos, etc., the mount of /dev/mmcblk0p1 has *appeared* mounted on > /media/disk? Huh? > > I can't tell you when it appeared, but I can tell you that for at least > 4-5 minutes. So why the initial error and why the magical appearance after > the error telling me it wasn't going to be mounted? What to check for more > info? Here is the deal, When I stick the card in, as my normal user I can't access the device shown under "Services" "Storage Media" and there is no "disk" entry in /media. If I start konqueror running as root and then access "Services" "Storage Media" and the SD card (/dev/mmcblk0p1 in this case), Presto the device automatically appears as "disk" under /media and then I *can* access it (rw) as my normal user. What gives? What permissions are stuck? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
[arch-general] Howto create initial xorg.conf for intel 915?
Listmates: I have been throught http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_Graphics, and even added the section on howto calculate your VideoRam value, but I didn't find anything about generating an initial xorg.conf for the intel card. Currently I have no xorg.conf and things are working, but not as fast as they could. I would like to configure the card to use UXA accell, but I need an xorg.conf to tweak. Anybody know a quick way to create one? Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] hal has lost its mind again.
On or about Sunday 17 May 2009 at approximately 03:16:26 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. composed: > Listmates, > > On my laptop, automounting of usb drives and mmc/sd cards were working > fine, now I get the "...mount.removable no <-- (action, result)" Full error > dialog: > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/hal-mount.removable.jpg > > The system configures the drives or cards just fine, it just will not > create the directory under /media to allow access. It is really ironic > because the drives/cards are fully accessible under "media:/". So, nothing > in "/media", but OK in "media:/". > > I am concerned that changes made > in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/20-ntfs-config-write-policy.fdi to allow NTFS mounts > messed something else up. The file contains: > > > > >bool="true"> >type="string">ntfs-3g >type="string">ntfs-3g > > > > > which is straight from the wiki. The everything log contains the > following: > > May 17 02:50:23 alchemy kernel: tifm_core: MMC/SD card detected in socket > 0:1 May 17 02:50:23 alchemy kernel: mmc1: new SD card at address e624 > May 17 02:50:23 alchemy kernel: isa bounce pool size: 16 pages > May 17 02:50:23 alchemy kernel: mmcblk0: mmc1:e624 SD02G 1.89 GiB > May 17 02:50:23 alchemy kernel: mmcblk0: p1 > May 17 02:55:20 alchemy hald: mounted /dev/mmcblk0p1 on behalf of uid 0 > May 17 03:06:54 alchemy kernel: ACPI: EC: missing confirmations, switch off > interrupt mode. > > I don't know if the ACPI kernel message is evidence of the problem, but > I > included it just in case. I am slowly trying to make friends with hal/dbus, > but I could use any help you can give in sorting this out. Thanks. Another interesting note. When I inserted the card, there was no entry created in /media. Now 10 minutes later after I have been copying the photos, etc., the mount of /dev/mmcblk0p1 has *appeared* mounted on /media/disk? Huh? I can't tell you when it appeared, but I can tell you that for at least 4-5 minutes. So why the initial error and why the magical appearance after the error telling me it wasn't going to be mounted? What to check for more info? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
[arch-general] hal has lost its mind again.
Listmates, On my laptop, automounting of usb drives and mmc/sd cards were working fine, now I get the "...mount.removable no <-- (action, result)" Full error dialog: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/hal-mount.removable.jpg The system configures the drives or cards just fine, it just will not create the directory under /media to allow access. It is really ironic because the drives/cards are fully accessible under "media:/". So, nothing in "/media", but OK in "media:/". I am concerned that changes made in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/20-ntfs-config-write-policy.fdi to allow NTFS mounts messed something else up. The file contains: ntfs-3g ntfs-3g which is straight from the wiki. The everything log contains the following: May 17 02:50:23 alchemy kernel: tifm_core: MMC/SD card detected in socket 0:1 May 17 02:50:23 alchemy kernel: mmc1: new SD card at address e624 May 17 02:50:23 alchemy kernel: isa bounce pool size: 16 pages May 17 02:50:23 alchemy kernel: mmcblk0: mmc1:e624 SD02G 1.89 GiB May 17 02:50:23 alchemy kernel: mmcblk0: p1 May 17 02:55:20 alchemy hald: mounted /dev/mmcblk0p1 on behalf of uid 0 May 17 03:06:54 alchemy kernel: ACPI: EC: missing confirmations, switch off interrupt mode. I don't know if the ACPI kernel message is evidence of the problem, but I included it just in case. I am slowly trying to make friends with hal/dbus, but I could use any help you can give in sorting this out. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] AARG! kinit: cannot open dev(8,7) kernel panic
On or about Saturday 16 May 2009 at approximately 20:28:49 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. composed: > On or about Saturday 16 May 2009 at approximately 20:13:11 pyther composed: > > Try replacing the disk-by-uuid stuff with direct paths to the device > > nodes (ex. /dev/sda2, etc). If you can get this to work then start > > switching back to disk-by-uuid. > > > > ~pyther > > Hmm, > > I'll give it a go and report back. My fingers are getting sore from all > the mount and chroot typing though ;-) Ok, After switching /boot/grub/menu.lst and /etc/fstab from disk/by-uuid labels to the standard /dev/sda# labels everything boots and runs fine. Now the question of why the by-uuid labels did not work? I updated the uuid lables in each file with the right value from /dev/disk/by-uuid using strick copy and paste to eliminate typos and then verified 3 times, they were right. I guess I'll go back and substitute uuid labels one-by-one and see where it fails. My luck, it will work this time. If I find a failure, then we will have narrowed the error down. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] AARG! kinit: cannot open dev(8,7) kernel panic
On or about Saturday 16 May 2009 at approximately 20:13:11 pyther composed: > > Try replacing the disk-by-uuid stuff with direct paths to the device nodes > (ex. /dev/sda2, etc). If you can get this to work then start switching back > to disk-by-uuid. > > ~pyther Hmm, I'll give it a go and report back. My fingers are getting sore from all the mount and chroot typing though ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] Bugs again
On or about Friday 15 May 2009 at approximately 05:15:15 Jon Kristian Nilsen composed: > This discussion never seems to get old. > > > Thirdly: > Why are users encouraged to report to the ML and the forums beforehand? I > don't see any practical reason in having several bit's and pieces of > information spread around. A bugtracker should be used for that, it's > possible to post comments in it, isn't it? > Having one clear system for users to post bugs will help gain population > and give encouragement, if a user have to go through several different > organs for something like this, the majority of users will most likely not > do it. - Sad to say, but it IS the truth. > > > Sorry for spamming. > > -J > From my experience, the flow has always been two-tiered: (1) If you know enough to know it is a bug -> report it to tracker (2) If you don't know enough to know its a bug (newer user/unsure about the area of the system) -> post it to the list to confirm the bug or for further information that will allow you to confirm it, or rule it out. With arch, things get a little unwieldy when we add the forum as "layer 3" without a clear delineation of what information goes to the list and what goes to the forum. There may be some guideline for that somewhere, but I haven't run across it yet. (One can only read so many hundred wiki, forum, bug, and list posts in a given amount of time) I have always understood IRC is simply for quick questions/answers so that doesn't cause a problem as another "layer 4." I still believe the best practice for bug reports is the (1) (2) laid out above. It helps both weed out bugs that aren't really bugs to begin with, and it also helps better frame the bug issues for the ones that are bugs but that the reporter doesn't know enough about to feel comfortable reporting to begin with. I don't know how the forum fits in here, but I do agree that the efficiency of the bug tracking/fixing process suffers if the devs have to try and pick information out of 3 different places potentially under 3 different titles/subjects. As for spamming, this stuff is never spamming. These are the discussions that need to be held to provide the decision makers additional information and viewpoints to consider in defining the policies to put in place. Even if all my/your suggestions are ultimately tossed, they still had value in providing an option or alternative to be considered. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
[arch-general] AARG! kinit: cannot open dev(8,7) kernel panic
Listmates, I am in a fist-fight with grub again most likely due to /dev/disk/by-uuid and I'm losing the battle. First, the situation. I'm moving and resizing partitions from an 80G drive to a 500G drive. No issues there. The partitions setup is: /dev/sda1 WinXP /dev/sda2 Extended /dev/sda5 /home /dev/sda6 / /dev/sda7 swap /dev/sda8 /boot After moving and resizing the partitions windows boot fine and Arch boots until it gets to kinit and then throws a kernel panic. I have updated the disk/by-uuid labels in /boot/grub/menu.lst and in /etc/fstab, but still the kinit error. As far as my grub install goes, the system boot to the grub menu and it is reading /boot/grub/menu.lst because I can boot XP from the grub menu, but not boot Arch. Gurus... What to check? Throw a brother a bone Where else is the disk by-uuid stuff hidden? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] Setting up print to postscript in openoffice 3
On or about Friday 15 May 2009 at approximately 23:42:07 Allan McRae composed: > > It would be good to add tips like these to the wiki. They are likely to > get lost if only posted to the mailing list. > > Allan Done, See: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS#Print_to_Postscript_--_A_CUPS-PDF_Virtual_Printer_Trick -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] gparted dependency failure `GLIBCXX_3.4.11' not found
On or about Saturday 16 May 2009 at approximately 09:38:18 Allan McRae composed: > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > Listmates, > > > > Attempting to run gparted from the local drive (after installing all > > listed optional dependencies of gparted) to resize a partition on a usb > > drive disclosed a dependency failure: > > > > [09:33 supersff:/home/david/linux/partition-copy] # gparted > > /usr/sbin/gpartedbin: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.11' > > not found (required by /usr/sbin/gpartedbin) > > > > Hmm should this be reported as a bug or chocked up to stupidity on my > > part? > > It sounds like the was built with gcc-4.4 and your system is not fully > up-to-date. > > Allan 407M update running now, I'll report back, thanks Allan! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] System Upgrade - networkmanager conflicts with libnetworkmanager
On or about Saturday 16 May 2009 at approximately 04:22:56 Biru Ionut
composed:
> Grigorios Bouzakis wrote:
> > I dont know where you installed libnetworkmanager from, if it was in
> > extra and got replaced but i'd go with networkmanager
> > See the replaces & conflicts lines here:
> > http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/networkmanager/repos/extra-i686/PKG
> >BUILD?view=markup
>
> the previous version has split
Allan, Grigorios, Biru
Thanks! That's what I needed.
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[arch-general] gparted dependency failure `GLIBCXX_3.4.11' not found
Listmates, Attempting to run gparted from the local drive (after installing all listed optional dependencies of gparted) to resize a partition on a usb drive disclosed a dependency failure: [09:33 supersff:/home/david/linux/partition-copy] # gparted /usr/sbin/gpartedbin: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.11' not found (required by /usr/sbin/gpartedbin) Hmm should this be reported as a bug or chocked up to stupidity on my part? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
[arch-general] System Upgrade - networkmanager conflicts with libnetworkmanager
Listmates, I don't know how to handle this dependency error and I want to make sure I don't break my kdemod3 install by replacing libnetworkmanager with extra/networkmanager. I presume it would be a 1-for-1 drop-in replacement, but I thought I would ask first. Anybody know? :: Synchronizing package databases... kdemod-legacy is up to date core 33.5K 104.4K/s 00:00:00 [#] 100% extra384.2K 127.0K/s 00:00:03 [#] 100% community361.9K 132.0K/s 00:00:03 [#] 100% :: Starting full system upgrade... :: Replace libnetworkmanager with extra/networkmanager? [Y/n] n resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... :: networkmanager conflicts with libnetworkmanager. Remove libnetworkmanager? [Y/n] n error: unresolvable package conflicts detected error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: networkmanager: conflicts with libnetworkmanager -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
[arch-general] Setting up print to postscript in openoffice 3
Listmates, While I was on the subject, I thought I would pass this tip along. Let me know if this should go to forums instead of here. Printing to pdf is no problem in ooo3, just hit the button, but if you want to print to postscript, then things take a little more work. Printing to kprinter is nebulous in ooo3, so there has to be another way -- and there is. The simplest way I have found is to: (1) install cups & cups-pdf from extra; (2) start cups with /etc/rc.d/cups (Add to deamons line in /etc/rc.conf to start automatically at boot) (3) access the cups print manager: http://localhost:631 and select: Administration -> Find New Printers Select CUPS-PDF (Virtual PDF) Make: Generic Driver: Generic CUPS-PDF Printer Done! Now to print to postscript, just print as usual, choose "CUPS-PDF" as the printer and then select the checkbox for "print to file", hit print and enter the filename.ps and 'print' Handy for faxes, etc... Since cups pdf uses the ps2pdf utility as the background, you are simply stopping the process with "print to file" before the ps2pdf utility is called. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?
On or about Thursday 14 May 2009 at approximately 18:57:51 Damjan Georgievski composed: > > What is the concern with editing /etc/group by hand? The group man > > page doesn't even reference usermod as a way to manipulate group > > associations. > > The simple one that you could make a mistake while editing, maybe much > more easily than when using usermod :) usermod and vi are both subject to the same loose nut behind the keyboard ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?
On or about Thursday 14 May 2009 at approximately 21:46:02 Frédéric Perrin composed: > Le Jeudi 14 à 23:03, Attila a écrit : > > I prefer to use gpasswd because for me the big advantage is that you > > don't have to log out than. But i don't know too what speak against > > editing /etc/group by hand if you can live with it that you have to > > log out. > > You don't have to log out / log back in for a new group to take effect. > There is the adequately named newgrp(1) that spawns a new shell with a > different real and effective GID. You don't even have to logout/login if you are just adding someone to a group by hand. The changes are picked up the next time you try and access something requiring the uid/gid combination. I guess if you created a new group by hand then you would. I always use groupadd for creating groups unless I'm copying the initial group configuration over. I just hand edit for adding or removing members from the groups. I haven't yet run into any problems doing it like this, that's why I was surprised by the suggestion. However, I like the usermod approach, it will save a few keystrokes. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?
On or about Thursday 14 May 2009 at approximately 13:13:53 Daenyth Blank composed: > > You can use vigr for this, and similarly vipw Thanks Daenyth! Old dog -- new trick. See, it can be done ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] Virtualbox Window Transparent?? [solved - sort of]
On or about Thursday 14 May 2009 at approximately 23:45:49 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. composed: > Listmates, > > Here is one for the experts. I installed virtual box on my Arch laptop, > and upon starting my XP guest machine, I discover that the VB window is > almost completely transparent?? This is really strange and I can't explain > what is happening, so a picture (screenshot) is worth a 1000 words: > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/screenshots/archlinux/vb-transparent2.j >pg > > [139k] > > As you can see, the Virtualbox window background is almost 100% > transparent as well as some parts of the applications running in it. This > can make it quite challenging to get things done. I am using the radeonhd > driver. I tried it with compiz running and then again with kwin. It made no > difference. > > Other than virtualbox being transparent, everything else was OK. Any > ideas > on this one?? > > cc: radeonhd list Listmates I know what was causing the weird behavior of virtualbox: kde control center -> window behavior -> translucency But that doesn't explain why it was happening. Oh well, I can live without it while running VB. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
[arch-general] Virtualbox Window Transparent??
Listmates, Here is one for the experts. I installed virtual box on my Arch laptop, and upon starting my XP guest machine, I discover that the VB window is almost completely transparent?? This is really strange and I can't explain what is happening, so a picture (screenshot) is worth a 1000 words: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/screenshots/archlinux/vb-transparent2.jpg [139k] As you can see, the Virtualbox window background is almost 100% transparent as well as some parts of the applications running in it. This can make it quite challenging to get things done. I am using the radeonhd driver. I tried it with compiz running and then again with kwin. It made no difference. Other than virtualbox being transparent, everything else was OK. Any ideas on this one?? cc: radeonhd list -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] Bugs again
at I can tell from my short time here, Arch does a very good job, but this issues provides us all an opportunity to review whether we can make any improvements to this part of Arch's bug tracking process. From my experience, the most critical, and easy, improvement to be made in this area is just to communicate 'why'. That two-sentence explanation back to the contributor and the opportunity to consider a simple patch goes a long, long way toward making a distro shine. Now all of the above is just my opinion on the issue and will look like a bunch of idle rambling to most, but if you sift through it, there just may be a perl of wisdom to pick out. (remember, even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?
On or about Thursday 14 May 2009 at approximately 07:23:37 Damjan Georgievski composed: > > (2) Add yourself to the wheel group in /etc/group. Example, in > > /etc/group: > > > > wheel::10:root,david > > it's best not to edit the file by hand. > You can use the "usermod -G wheel -a david" command for that. Hmm Damjan, I may have been doing it wrong for a while now ( about 9 years ). My understanding was the only sudo related file you should not edit by hand was /etc/sudoers and that is why we have visudo. I haven't heard that editing /etc/group by hand would cause problems. In fact, that is the way I keep my GIDs the same between installs. I just have my normal groups and users copied from my original /etc/group that I copy to all new installs. (that about 10 groups with about 12 users sprinkled between the groups) I've never had a problem. What is the concern with editing /etc/group by hand? The group man page doesn't even reference usermod as a way to manipulate group associations. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] Help understanding which interface OpenOffice is using? [Solved]
On Wednesday 29 April 2009 12:38:37 David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>
> Try installing kdemod3-gtk-qt-engine. It makes Gnome/GTK apps use your
> KDE settings. Its configuration screen gets added into the KDE control
> center under Appearance & Themes -> GTK Styles and Fonts.
>
> If you look at my desktop snapshot, all 3 of those apps (Thunderbird,
> Eclipse, and Firefox) are GTK apps, and yet their UI's are picking up my
> KDE font and color settings. (Otherwise the windows would show up in a
> grey color.)
>
> HTH,
>
> DR
Ok,
Finally got around to making openOffice, etc. look decent. The keys
were:
1. Install kdemod3-gtk-qt-engine (if using kdemod3) qtcurve-gtk2 qtcurve-kde3
gtk-chtheme
2. Select Theme in qtconfig
3. Set a smaller font size with gtk-chtheme
Now openOffice looks great!
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Re: [arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?
On Wednesday 13 May 2009 18:17:18 Andrei Thorp wrote: > I'm very cool with bypassing root-level security checks when > originating from the physical machine. > > Anyway, another thing you can do is put some scripts in your path that > override the application that you want to run and then just sudo run > it. I'm not really sure what PATH KDM (and therefore KDE?) uses, but > probably has to do something with either your user's .profile or > root's .profile or bash_profile or something. > > Course, isn't there a way to just elevate your user to be a root-like > account if you're going to be doing this anyway? Put your user in the > root group or something. > > -AT Some times the old ways are still the best: After looking for other solutions, I just decided to "dance with the one that brung me." kwritconfig works like a champ. To make use of this solution, after setting up regular sudo by: (1) configuring the sudoers file with 'visudo' as root (you cannot just edit /etc/sudoers): # visudo Then uncomment the following line to enable sudo without a password to members of the 'wheel' group: %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL (2) Add yourself to the wheel group in /etc/group. Example, in /etc/group: wheel::10:root,david ** If your user name isn't 'david', change as required (3) Then within KDE *as your regular user* not root, execute the following kwriteconfig command from the command line in konsole or xterm, or from the run dialog (Alt+F2): kwriteconfig --file kdesurc --group super-user-command --key super-user-command sudo (4) Your done! You can then run applications as root without a password simply by either using the run command (Alt+F2) and choosing "options" or using kmenuedit to modify a menu command and select the check box "Run as a different user" and enter 'root'. (either save the menu file or just execute the Alt+F2 run command. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
[arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?
Listmates, When I need to run apps a root for configuration purposes like kate, or konqueror "File Management", I either put the command in the Alt+F2 run dialog or create a menu entry and then check [ ] run as different users and put 'root' in the different user text box. Even though I have configured sudo I am inevitably prompte for a password. With suse we "patched" this by using kwriteconfig as your regular user: kwriteconfig --file kdesurc --group super-user-command --key super-user-command sudo This wasn't the "recommended" way, but it was the way most chose to get around a mess with kdesu. When I try and access the apps I want to run as root, not only do I get the initial password prompt, but I get a second prompt after the app is closed. That has left me scratching my head. The other option is just to create the menu entries as "sudo command" which doesn't complain wheen opening whatever I need. What says the braintrust? Is this an arch issue or is it a kdemod issue? Any help would be appreciated, thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] Why does my sound work sometimes & not others?
On Wednesday 13 May 2009 09:40:34 David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > snd-hda-intel encompasses many different chipsets/codecs. Which one > does your card use? You can find out like so: > > [dar...@daroselin ~]$ grep Codec /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 > Codec: IDT 92HD71B7X > > > As far as general things to check/try: > > * Try restarting the KDE sound system. > > * Try checking to see if anything got muted in the mixer (i.e., check in > Kmix or alsamixer). > > * Try seeing if this is a KDE issue or not by hitting ctrl-alt-F1, > logging into a non-X console, and testing the sound using alsaplayer. > > * I had a problem with my sound card whereby "analog loopback" was > getting set and muting the sound. (See: > http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=535521#p535521) Tore my hair > out over that one for a LONG time. Maybe this is your issue too? > > HTH, > > DR Hmm, Another DR message that gets flagged as "Important" in the email list. Thanks DR. Here is where I am at. So far, sound has been good for the past 3 hours. (I haven't had to login/logout yet though). From Damjan's suggestion, here is my working open file list: Working Setup: [13:46 alchemy:/home/david] # lsof /dev/snd/* COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME kmix3263 david 10u CHR 116,10 0t0 4088 /dev/snd/controlC0 [13:48 alchemy:/home/david] # lsof /dev/dsp* +- Now, I preface this with the fact that I have virtually no experience picking through the sound system in /proc, but it looks like I have "2"? codecs required (HDA Codecc 0 & 3). Here is what looked relevant to the discussion: [13:48 alchemy:/home/david] # grep Codec /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 Codec: LSI ID 1040 [14:00 alchemy:/home/david] # grep Codec /proc/asound/card0/codec#3 Codec: Realtek ALC268 [14:01 alchemy:/home/david] # cat /proc/asound/card0/id SB [14:04 alchemy:/home/david] # cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB HDA ATI SB at 0xf870 irq 16 [14:05 alchemy:/home/david] # cat /proc/asound/hwdep 00-03: HDA Codec 3 00-00: HDA Codec 0 [14:07 alchemy:/home/david] # cat /proc/asound/pcm 00-00: ALC268 Analog : ALC268 Analog : playback 1 : capture 1 00-01: ALC268 Digital : ALC268 Digital : playback 1 00-02: ALC268 Analog : ALC268 Analog : capture 1 [14:07 alchemy:/home/david] # cat /proc/asound/version Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.18a. Now since this mostly Greek concerning the LSI ID and where the Realtek codec resides, I'll just have to put it to the list: "Does this look normal?" Anything I seem to be missing? Like I said, right now the sound is working, so I'll just compare the values/parameters to what I get when it quits again. Thanks again for your help. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] Why does my sound work sometimes & not others?
On Wednesday 13 May 2009 07:38:07 Damjan Georgievski wrote:
> > When I first start arch and start kde, everything is fine.
> > However, if I log out and then back it, most times the sound is gone --
> > dead. The sound will not start again until I reboot. Anybody got any
> > ideas on what to check or what to keep a watch out for? Also, any ideas
> > on how to bring the sound back once it dies without having to reboot?
>
> Do a "lsof /dev/snd/* /dev/dsp*" as root to see if something holds
> your sound-card open.
>
> I must say, pulseaudio works very good for me these days (BTW I run it
> as a system service) so I don't have any problems with sound any more.
Damjan,
Thanks. I have heard a lot about pulseaudio, but I just haven't gotten
around
to looking at it. In the past, I have never listened to music or cared much
about whether sound was working or not. However, I now have a 10, 7 and 4
year old and the older two are getting into music, ipods, etc. Life was
simple when all we had was the ipod nano, gtkpod worked great. Now I have to
find something to interface with the 'ipod touch'. Looks like amarok is the
only thing I can find that looks promising.
Long and short of it is I now need sound. I'll check into pulseaudio.
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[arch-general] Radeonhd - Use EXA Accel instead of XAA Accel
Listmates, If you use the radeonhd driver, use EXA acceleration instead of XAA. I just found out about this today and it is a 100% improvement in speed, etc. over XAA acceleration. It isn't as fast as fglrx, but it is a world of improvement over the alternative. To make use of EXA acceleration, simply enable it in your xorg.conf in the device section. Example: Section "Device" BoardName"RS690M" Driver "radeonhd" Identifier "Device[0]" Option "GARTSize" "256" Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" Option "EnablePrivateBackZ" "no" Option "VideoOverlay" "on" Option "no_dri" "no" Option "UseFastTLS" "1" Option "no_accel" "no" Option "mtrr" "off" VendorName "ATI" EndSection -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] kdm3 crash on logout - no apparrent errors [Partially Solved]
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 23:52:23 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > *WARN_ONCE* > File r300_mem.c function r300_mem_alloc line 225 > Ran out of GART memory (for 1048576)! > Please consider adjusting GARTSize option. > *** > > Dunno where the error is because it starts just fine and used to login > and > logout without crashing with the most recent kernel before the last kernel > update. What should I try? Listmates, Given the error, I made two changes to my xorg.conf for my laptop that seem to have fixed/helped the problem. I added the following options to increase the gart size and to switch to EXA accel instead of XAA and the last logout/login worked great. The options were: Option "GARTSize" "256" Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" # Option "XAANoOffScreenPixmaps" "true" I also commented the XAANoOffScreenPixmaps option. Time will tell if we are fixed or if I just got lucky ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] Arch artwork & compiz screenshot
On Wednesday 13 May 2009 01:30:20 Vincent Van Houtte wrote: > Op Wed, 13 May 2009 00:49:50 -0500 > > > The concept is nice - but you do know this is the old logo you're using, > right? > > Vincent Yes, Thanks Vincent. I just grabbed it because this one had a really cool glass look I thought would work good as a cube cap. I'll work with the new one once I have time to find one big enough. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] Why does my sound work sometimes & not others?
On Wednesday 13 May 2009 03:37:26 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > Listmates, > > I have the most atavistic sound known to mankind on my laptop running > arch. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The card specs are: > > > When I first start arch and start kde, everything is fine. However, if I > log out and then back it, most times the sound is gone -- dead. The sound > will not start again until I reboot. Anybody got any ideas on what to check > or what to keep a watch out for? Also, any ideas on how to bring the sound > back once it dies without having to reboot? > > Thanks for any help you can provide. I always hated chasing sound > problems. I just logged out and logged back in to test and ... sound is gone again. However, on the up side, kdm didn't crash on logout:-) Any hints would be appreciated. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] Opera Segfaults on x86_64 after kernel update [Solved]
On Monday 11 May 2009 23:47:55 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > I have some additional information from the log file: > > May 11 23:37:42 alchemy kernel: opera[4657]: segfault at 0 ip > 7f0c25c36719 sp 7fff2fabd710 error 4 in > libstdc++.so.6.0.11[7f0c25b72000+f1000] Opera seems to be fixed after the updates today! Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
[arch-general] Why does my sound work sometimes & not others?
Listmates, I have the most atavistic sound known to mankind on my laptop running arch. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The card specs are: 0:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff08 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- SERR- Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel The Intel modules loaded are: snd65928 13 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer snd_hda_codec 68112 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel snd_hda_intel 29256 1 snd_page_alloc 9760 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm snd_pcm80920 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec When I first start arch and start kde, everything is fine. However, if I log out and then back it, most times the sound is gone -- dead. The sound will not start again until I reboot. Anybody got any ideas on what to check or what to keep a watch out for? Also, any ideas on how to bring the sound back once it dies without having to reboot? Thanks for any help you can provide. I always hated chasing sound problems. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
[arch-general] Arch artwork & compiz screenshot
Listmates: Needing to spruce up the cube caps on cube rotation in compiz (the old opensuse artwork just wouldn't do), I started messing around with some of the archlinux-artwork. I found one that I like and then added some finishing touches in gimp. A screenshot of the resulting cubecaps and desktop is here: [69k] http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/compiz/archglass-cyl.jpg The actual cubecap file is found here: [450k due to transparency] http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/compiz/archglass-compizcaps.png Use it at will. If you have no interest, just hit [del]. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] kdm3 crash on logout - no apparrent errors
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 04:42:33 Alessandro Doro wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 01:53:11AM -0500, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote:
> > Listmates,
> >
> > After the kernel update, my kdm3 is crashing with each user logout.
> > Basically, on logout you are dumped back to tty1 and must then login and
> > issue kdm3 restart to restore the display manager. I am using the
> > radeonhd driver. Before the latest update this didn't occur. What can I
> > check to get information to help solve this puzzle?
> >
> > I've checked /var/log/messages.log and Xorg.0.log, but nothing is out of
> > the ordinary. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Have a look at /var/log/kdm.log and/or ~/.xsession-errors (before
> relogin).
>
>
> You can try to add:
>
> TerminateServer=true
>
> to the [X-*-Core] section of /opt/kde/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
>
> I need(ed) that line because of similar problems.
Alessandro,
I think the new kernel and vesafb is the problem. Here is the log after
the
crash on user logout:
X.Org X Server 1.6.1
Release Date: 2009-4-14
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.29-ARCH x86_64
Current Operating System: Linux alchemy 2.6.29-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat May 9
14:09:36 CEST 2009 x86_64
Build Date: 15 April 2009 11:01:49AM
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue May 12 18:43:59 2009
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module "freetype" (module does not exist, 0)
None
QSettings: error creating /tmp/0151698992/.qt
QSettings: failed to open file '/tmp/0151698992/.qt/qt_plugins_3.3rc'
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /tmp/0151698992/.qt
QSettings: failed to open file '/tmp/0151698992/.qt/qt_plugins_3.3rc'
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /tmp/0151698992/.qt
QSettings: failed to open file '/tmp/0151698992/.qt/qt_plugins_3.3rc'
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /tmp/0151698992/.qt
QSettings: failed to open file '/tmp/0151698992/.qt/qt_plugins_3.3rc'
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /tmp/0151698992/.qt
QSettings: failed to open file '/tmp/0151698992/.qt/qt_plugins_3.3rc'
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /tmp/0151698992/.qt
QSettings: failed to open file '/tmp/0151698992/.qt/qt_plugins_3.3rc'
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
(EE) RADEONHD(0): Failed to map FB.
Fatal server error:
AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0
On startup, this is the log:
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /tmp/0872520527/.qt
QSettings: failed to open file '/tmp/0872520527/.qt/qt_plugins_3.3rc'
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
*WARN_ONCE*
File r300_mem.c function r300_mem_alloc line 225
Ran out of GART memory (for 1048576)!
Please consider adjusting GARTSize option.
***************
Dunno where the error is because it starts just fine and used to login
and
logout without crashing with the most recent kernel before the last kernel
update. What should I try?
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[arch-general] kdm3 crash on logout - no apparrent errors
Listmates, After the kernel update, my kdm3 is crashing with each user logout. Basically, on logout you are dumped back to tty1 and must then login and issue kdm3 restart to restore the display manager. I am using the radeonhd driver. Before the latest update this didn't occur. What can I check to get information to help solve this puzzle? I've checked /var/log/messages.log and Xorg.0.log, but nothing is out of the ordinary. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] Dovecot
On Sunday 10 May 2009 11:00:18 Baho Utot wrote:
> Anyone got a simple configuration file ( dovecot.conf )
> that has simple auth login? like clear text?
>
> thanks
Baho,
Here is a simple one I use (comments removed):
00:28 nirvana:~> nc /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
protocols = imap imaps
ssl_disable = no
mail_location = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
protocol imap {
mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/imap
}
protocol pop3 {
mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/pop3
}
protocol managesieve {
sieve=~/.dovecot.sieve
sieve_storage=~/sieve
}
protocol lda {
postmaster_address = postmas...@example.com
mail_plugin_dir = /usr/lib64/dovecot/modules/lda
}
auth default {
mechanisms = plain
passdb pam {
}
userdb passwd {
}
user = root
}
dict {
}
plugin {
}
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Re: [arch-general] Opera Segfaults on x86_64 after kernel update
On Monday 11 May 2009 23:35:05 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > Listmates, > > After the kernel update to kernel26 2.6.29.3-1, opera is segfaulting for > some reason. Opera doesn't event splash anything on the screen, it just > dies. Here is what I get from the cli: > > 23:28 alchemy:~> opera -debugxerror > opera: X Error: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) 5 > Major opcode: 20 > Minor opcode: 0 > Resource id: 0 > > I have no idea what a BadAtom is or if that is the problem. I haven't > run > across anything else in the past hour since the update. What should I > check? I have some additional information from the log file: May 11 23:37:42 alchemy kernel: opera[4657]: segfault at 0 ip 7f0c25c36719 sp 7fff2fabd710 error 4 in libstdc++.so.6.0.11[7f0c25b72000+f1000] -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
[arch-general] Opera Segfaults on x86_64 after kernel update
Listmates, After the kernel update to kernel26 2.6.29.3-1, opera is segfaulting for some reason. Opera doesn't event splash anything on the screen, it just dies. Here is what I get from the cli: 23:28 alchemy:~> opera -debugxerror opera: X Error: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) 5 Major opcode: 20 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0 I have no idea what a BadAtom is or if that is the problem. I haven't run across anything else in the past hour since the update. What should I check? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] default ~/.config/compiz/compizconfig prevents compiz start with radeonhd
On Saturday 09 May 2009 03:09:37 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > Listmates, > > > The problem is with the archlinux default > ~/.config/compiz/compizconfig/config supplied along with the > compiz-fusion-kde package. The default is: > > [kde_session] > profile = > > For some reason this prevents compiz from starting with either the > radeon > or radeonhd driver. > Just fyi, I checked the default config for suse by creating a new user, starting compiz, and exiting. It is as follows: [03:21 ecstasy:/srv/www/download/linux/compiz] # cat compizconfig-suse/compizconfig/Default.ini [decoration] as_command = kde-window-decorator --replace [core] as_active_plugins = core;ccp;place;move;resize;decoration;png;wobbly;cube;fade;minimize;rotate;scale;switcher;regex;workarounds;zoom; My guess is that "workarounds" is what helped compiz get started with the default config. (That is only my guess though) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
[arch-general] default ~/.config/compiz/compizconfig prevents compiz start with radeonhd
Listmates, I thought I would pass along a bug and a solution. I struggled trying to get compiz running on my arch x86_64 install on my laptop with the radeonhd driver for my x1200 card. After pulling my xorg.conf apart, swapping between the radeon and radeonhd driver and posting to the compiz list, I got the solution from a reply on the compiz list. The problem is with the archlinux default ~/.config/compiz/compizconfig/config supplied along with the compiz-fusion-kde package. The default is: [kde_session] profile = For some reason this prevents compiz from starting with either the radeon or radeonhd driver. SYMPTOMS: Upon Compiz start, the display behaves exactly like it is going to work. The display goes blank, sequentially erasing and redrawing each window, but then it never actually starts. The windows are just left there with no decor. You can sill provide input to them, but you cannot move or resize them. Issuing kwin --replace & causes the reverse to happen (windows destroyed, black screen, windows then redrawn with kde decor. SOLUTION(S): From the compiz list, the suggestion was made to go ahead and let compiz try to start. Since you still have input capability, issue ccsm from the command line and then configure compiz forcing a new config to be written, then reload compiz. I did the equivalent, but took a shortcut by simply rsyncing ~/.config/compiz from another working machine. Problem solved. REMAINING ISSUES WITH ARCH GLX: When issuing glxinfo from a konsole cli as $USER everything works fine. However, if you are su to root $UID then glxinfo fails: [23:07 alchemy:/home/david] # glxinfo No protocol specified Error: unable to open display :0.0 Dunno if this is a bug or feature, but I thought I would pass it along. I'll file a bug report on the default config issue, fixing it will save a lot of folks a lot of heartache and newbies from thinking Linux doesn't work. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] kde control center "Use my KDE style in GTK applications" causes ooo buttons to disappear
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 11:47:35 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > Listmates, > > I have an interesting one for you, in openOffice, all of the icons on > the > toolbars and all of the text of the context menus disappear when I click on > a document in writer. If I brush the mouse over the toolbar or menu, the > icons/text reappears while the icon or text has focus, but then disappears > again when the focus leaves. I have a number of illustrative screenshots > here: > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-menus-missing.jpg > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-menus-missing1.jp >g > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-toolbars-missing. >jpg > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-toolbars-missing1 >.jpg > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-toolbars-missing2 >.jpg > > Version Information: > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-about.jpg > > The problem seems to have started after changing the kde control center > setting for "Appearance & Themes" -> "GTK Styles and Fonts" -> "Use my KDE > style in GTK applications". I just confirmed this on an X86_64 box that I > had not made this setting on. I opened ooowriter and all buttons were there > in a very flat and ugly style. I then changed the above setting which > required a KDE restart. So I logged out and logged back in, reopened the > same document and all of the buttons started disappearing. > > Has anyone else seen anything like this? More importantly, how do I fix > it? To restore the original setting, delete ~/.kde/env/gtk-qt-engine.rc.sh and restart kde. Something is definitely amiss with that setting... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
[arch-general] kde control center "Use my KDE style in GTK applications" causes ooo buttons to disappear
Listmates, I have an interesting one for you, in openOffice, all of the icons on the toolbars and all of the text of the context menus disappear when I click on a document in writer. If I brush the mouse over the toolbar or menu, the icons/text reappears while the icon or text has focus, but then disappears again when the focus leaves. I have a number of illustrative screenshots here: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-menus-missing.jpg http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-menus-missing1.jpg http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-toolbars-missing.jpg http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-toolbars-missing1.jpg http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-toolbars-missing2.jpg Version Information: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-about.jpg The problem seems to have started after changing the kde control center setting for "Appearance & Themes" -> "GTK Styles and Fonts" -> "Use my KDE style in GTK applications". I just confirmed this on an X86_64 box that I had not made this setting on. I opened ooowriter and all buttons were there in a very flat and ugly style. I then changed the above setting which required a KDE restart. So I logged out and logged back in, reopened the same document and all of the buttons started disappearing. Has anyone else seen anything like this? More importantly, how do I fix it? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)
On Monday 04 May 2009 13:36:03 you wrote: > [snip] > > I don't know if this has anything to do with your problem, but I've had > difficulty auto-mounting NTFS partitions as read/write. The reason seems > to be that auto-mount autodetects NTFS partitions as using the ntfs driver, > but in order to get full functionality, you need to use the ntfs-3g driver. > Mounting as root, explicitly using the ntfs-3g driver, works. > > HTH, > Dave Moore Yes, I think that is exactly what the problem is. I didn't want 'rw', all I wanted was read-only. So I just created a directory as a mount point and did 'mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb2 /mountpoint'. It worked just fine. I'll play around to find a way to get this (politely put 'dad-gum') hal/dbus/PolicyKit to do what a simple 'mount -t ntfs' had done for years -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)
On Monday 04 May 2009 13:30:42 Christopher Daley wrote: > Do you have ntfs-3g installed? > Yep! [20:17 alchemy:/] # pmq syslog-ng syslog-ng 3.0.1-6 Now what? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] Laptop Install - 2 questions remain, WPA and Compiz with Radeon Driver
On Monday 04 May 2009 12:05:09 David Rosenstrauch wrote: > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > While I'm at it, where can I turn the default attempt to start 'eth0' > > off. > > in rc.conf: > > > # Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this order) > # Declare each interface then list in INTERFACES > # - prefix an entry in INTERFACES with a ! to disable it > > ... > > INTERFACES=(lo !eth0 eth1) > > DR Duh (Slaps self repeatedly.) Something about "being blind in one eye and can't see out of the other" comes to mind. Thanks DR for curing the CRI... Thanks also Dwight for the links hopefull my other eye will start working ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
[arch-general] Why do I have 20-ups-nut-device.fdi in my / dir?
Listmates, Picking around with mc, I saw a file that looked really out of place. In my / dir, I have 20-ups-nut-device.fdi. Shouldn't that be in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/. I plead the 5th, I don't know how it got there. This is on my x86_64 box. The date and time of the file are: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12367 2008-06-17 08:39 20-ups-nut-device.fdi [20:05 alchemy:/] # pacman -Qo 20-ups-nut-device.fdi error: No package owns 20-ups-nut-device.fdi Dunno? Can somebody take a quick check and see if they have this stray .fdi file in their / directory. It looks like a 'network ups tools' (nut) policy, but why it's in / escapes me. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)
On Monday 04 May 2009 07:37:50 flashkot wrote: > 2009/5/4 Angel Velásquez > > > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:09 AM, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. > > > > >org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, > > > > result) > > > > Did you tried [0] ? > > > > [0] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL#Auto-mounting_fails > > This also may help: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL#Mounting_fails > > I once has a problem with automount and this tip helped. > > WBR, > flashkot Man that is frustrating. Still unable to mount the NTFS partitions on the removable disk. The wiki helped with the ext3 partitions, but I still do not understand why man hal was wrong on suggesting the following (3) scenarios: Should give members of the wheel group full access to all mounts, but it did not? Should give group "users" (the default group GID 100) the ability to mount removable devices but it did not? Should give "me" full access to mounting/unmounting, but it did not? The question then becomes why did the following work for ext3: Why in the world did this work when the one just above didn't? One of my goals in life is to avoid looking in /etc/hal and /etc/dbus-1 ... I'm failing miserably ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] kde3 Error: Could Not Determine R esource Status - Kmail??
On Monday 04 May 2009 10:34:05 David Rosenstrauch wrote: > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > Anybody see this before and more importantly, How do I fix it? > > Use Thunderbird? :-) > > DR I got it fix auto-mysterious-magically Yes, it was imap and I don't exactly know what in the hell kmail was thinking. I suspect it had to do with not having "subscriptions" running while kmail was accessing the imap/mbox format server. As for thunderbird, I have used it exclusively for years. When I installed Arch on my laptop I thought I would take another look at kmail -- and wow, I really like what I see. The most impressive part is the (I guess new) kgroupware manager that makes it seemless to connect to my egroupware setup via xmlrpc. I have done the same with the "lightning" plugin in tbird in the past, but the latest version of tbird isn't compatible with the lightning plugin anymore. So all is good here. Now if I could just get the ATI card configured to work with compiz, I would be golden. I don't hold out too much hope though, frame rates with the radeon driver are 1/5 of what they were with the fglrx driver :-( -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] Laptop Install - 2 questions remain, WPA and Compiz with Radeon Driver
On Sunday 03 May 2009 05:21:05 Jan Spakula wrote:
> Excerpts from David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.'s message of So Mai 03 12:11:04
+0200 2009:
> > (1) My laptop has an Atheros card and is happily using the madwifi
> > driver. The only problem is that I'm starting it manually and need to
> > know where to put the pieces to have it start automatically. Basically,
> > it takes 3 commands to get my wifi going:
> >
> > ESSID=${1:-skyline}
> > IFACE=${2:-wlan0}
> >
> > iwconfig ${IFACE} essid "${ESSID}"
> >
> > wpa_supplicant -i${IFACE} -Dwext -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -d -B
> >
> > >> /var/log/wpa_start.log 2>&1
> >
> > sleep 2 # This doesn't count as a command
> >
> > dhcpcd wlan0
> >
> > My question is "Where do I put this stuff to make it happen when I
> > start Arch??
>
> Install the netcfg package, create a profile under /etc/network.d (there
> are some examples, so you shouldn't have any problem), and edit
> /etc/rc.conf: add the name of your profile into "NETWORKS=(...)" and add
> 'net-profiles' to your DAEMONS.
>
> -- Jan
Jan,
While I'm at it, where can I turn the default attempt to start 'eth0'
off.
All I care about is wireless on my laptop. If I need the wired connection I
can go start it manually, but I'd like to get rid of the ... waiting and the
[Fail] on boot. I thought about removing 'main' from the NETWORK section,
but I didn't want to kill the loopback setup (if that's where it is done).
What say the gurus? Where do I turn off the attempt to start eth0?
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510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
Telephone: (936) 715-9333
Facsimile: (936) 715-9339
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Re: [arch-general] Laptop Install - 2 questions remain, WPA and Compiz with Radeon Driver
On Sunday 03 May 2009 05:21:05 Jan Spakula wrote:
> Excerpts from David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.'s message of So Mai 03 12:11:04
+0200 2009:
> > (1) My laptop has an Atheros card and is happily using the madwifi
> > driver. The only problem is that I'm starting it manually and need to
> > know where to put the pieces to have it start automatically. Basically,
> > it takes 3 commands to get my wifi going:
> >
> > ESSID=${1:-skyline}
> > IFACE=${2:-wlan0}
> >
> > iwconfig ${IFACE} essid "${ESSID}"
> >
> > wpa_supplicant -i${IFACE} -Dwext -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -d -B
> >
> > >> /var/log/wpa_start.log 2>&1
> >
> > sleep 2 # This doesn't count as a command
> >
> > dhcpcd wlan0
> >
> > My question is "Where do I put this stuff to make it happen when I
> > start Arch??
>
> Install the netcfg package, create a profile under /etc/network.d (there
> are some examples, so you shouldn't have any problem), and edit
> /etc/rc.conf: add the name of your profile into "NETWORKS=(...)" and add
> 'net-profiles' to your DAEMONS.
>
> -- Jan
Jan,
Does net-profiles need to go after 'network' (I would think so), but
not
knowing better, I thought I would ask since the wiki just says:
eg: DAEMONS=(... net-profiles ...).
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Rankin Law Firm, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
Telephone: (936) 715-9333
Facsimile: (936) 715-9339
www.rankinlawfirm.com
[arch-general] org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)
Listmates,
I'm fighting with PolicyKit to mount my USB drives and --- it's
Winning!
I've modified /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf to give all users and
myself
(david) explicit authority (as a member of wheel and as me) and I've
*restarted* hal and still no-go? My conf file looks like this:
No matter what I do I get:
org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)
What gives??
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Rankin Law Firm, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
Telephone: (936) 715-9333
Facsimile: (936) 715-9339
www.rankinlawfirm.com
[arch-general] kde3 Error: Could Not Determine Resource Status - Kmail??
Listmates, Every minute or two I have this large and annoying dialog appear on the screen complainting about something related to kmail. The difficult part about it is it does *not* tell you what it is complaining about. The only thing close to a description it gives is "Could not stat resource". Huh? I have a screenshot of it here: ( 50K ) http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/kde/kontact-err.jpg The text of the error states: Error while getting folder information. Could Not Determine Resource Status An attempt to determine information about the status of the resource Mail, such as the resource name, type, size, etc., was unsuccessful. Technical reason: Could Not Stat Resource Details of the request: URL: (unknown) Date and time: Sunday 03 May 2009 04:30 pm Additional information: Mail Possible causes: The specified resource may not have existed or may not be accessible. A protocol error or incompatibility may have occurred. Although unlikely, a hardware error may have occurred. Possible solutions: Retry the request and ensure your authentication details are entered correctly. Contact your appropriate computer support system, whether the system administrator, or technical support group for further assistance. Anybody see this before and more importantly, How do I fix it? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
[arch-general] Laptop Install - 2 questions remain, WPA and Compiz with Radeon Driver
Listmates,
The laptop install (Toshiba 205D) went great accept where I am stuck
with
video drivers for my ati card, and the last little nit of getting wifi to
start automatically. First the easy one, the wireless:
(1) My laptop has an Atheros card and is happily using the madwifi driver. The
only problem is that I'm starting it manually and need to know where to put
the pieces to have it start automatically. Basically, it takes 3 commands to
get my wifi going:
ESSID=${1:-skyline}
IFACE=${2:-wlan0}
iwconfig ${IFACE} essid "${ESSID}"
wpa_supplicant -i${IFACE} -Dwext -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -d -B
>> /var/log/wpa_start.log 2>&1
sleep 2 # This doesn't count as a command
dhcpcd wlan0
My question is "Where do I put this stuff to make it happen when I
start
Arch??
(2) No Compiz with the radeon driver. I know there must be a trick or two that
will make this work. Heck, I even got compiz working on the intel card, so I
know the ATI card (X1200) will do it (it does it with the fglrx driver on
openSuSE). However, I don't know what the tricks are to getting it working on
the stock radeon driver. Any other ATI Arch users know any more about this??
Here is my current xorg.conf:
#
Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/URW"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/speedo"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz-fonts"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts"
FontPath "/opt/kde3/share/fonts"
InputDevices "/dev/gpmdata"
InputDevices "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on"
Option "IgnoreABI" "on"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "kbd"
Identifier "Keyboard[0]"
Option "Protocol" "Standard"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbModel" "microsoftpro"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Name" "Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical"
Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse[3]"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
Option "Name" "Touchpad"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "Vendor" "Synaptics"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor[0]"
VendorName "TOSHIBA"
ModelName"TOSHIBA 17IN TRUEBRIGHT"
UseModes "Modes[0]"
DisplaySize 367230
HorizSync30.0 - 70.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 60.0
Option "CalcAlgorithm" "XServerPool"
Option "DPMS"
Option "PreferredMode" "1440x900"
EndSection
Section "Modes"
Identifier "Modes[0]"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
Device "Device[0]"
Identifier "Screen[0]"
Monitor "Monitor[0]"
EndSection
Section "Device"
BoardName"RV350 NP"
# BusID"1:5:0"
Driver "radeon"
Identifier "Device[0]"
# Option "GARTSize" "32"
VendorName "ATI"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout[all]"
InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse[3]" "SendCoreEvents"
Option "Clone" "off"
Option "Xinerama" "off"
Screen 0 "Screen[0]" 0 0
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0660
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "true"
Option "DAMAGE" "true"
EndSection
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Rankin Law Firm, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
Telephone: (936) 715-9333
Facsimile: (936) 715-9339
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