[arch-general] Junior Developers

2010-11-18 Thread Chris Bannister
Hi, I remember (a while ago!) reading about junior developers, and at the time I was interested but wasnt using Arch much and busy wish uni, but now I was wondering if there are any further information ? Chris

Re: [arch-general] kernel26-2.6.35.4-2 - Hey! No more hang on boot on module load -- cool.

2010-09-18 Thread Chris Bannister
What problems where you experiencing? Im having similar issues. On 18 September 2010 04:10, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > >        Just dropping a line to let you know that I haven't had a > hang-on-boot with kernel26-2.6.35.4-2. That's great. I'll keep you posted, > but it looks like the issu

Re: [arch-general] Open Letter (Plea for Medical Help/Assistance) to World Leaders

2010-08-27 Thread Chris Bannister
brb calling dr house. On 28 August 2010 00:24, Ray Rashif wrote: > On 28 August 2010 07:19, Baho Utot wrote: >>  On 08/27/2010 04:34 PM, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) of Singapore wrote: >> >> [putolin] >> >>> I am exceedingly concerned that I might have heart/coronary artery disease >>> and th

Re: [arch-general] version control system for normal user

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Bannister
I used SVN at first then moved to git and havnt looked back since, fantastic all round. Check out http://githup.com On 26 August 2010 16:02, wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:56:45PM +0800, jewelshaw wrote: > >>     I'm a normal user on a workstation, without root privilege. Usually, I >> have

[arch-general] Hard lockups during boot

2010-07-22 Thread Chris Bannister
Hi, I used to use a zen kernel but that stopped working which is an unrelated story so I switched back to the Arch kernel, but im getting hardlocks during boot. It happened twice just now, first time was after ATA got init'd but before the SCSI came up. The second time it got to the waiting for ud

Re: [arch-general] devtmpfs

2010-06-26 Thread Chris Bannister
As far as im aware it doesnt work with initramfs either. On 26 June 2010 12:53, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 26.06.2010 13:50, schrieb Damjan Georgievski: And if I do will I be able to use root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/xx-yy-zz-etc >>> >>> No. >>> or any of the similar kernel command line option

Re: [arch-general] What should the Arch Security Team be called?

2010-06-18 Thread Chris Bannister
SUPER ARCH TEAM AWESOME On 18 June 2010 11:32, Baho Utot wrote: > On 06/18/10 01:05, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: >> >> On 06/18/2010 03:48 AM, J. McBlane wrote: >>> >>> Arch Security Enhancement Team? >>> Securing Arch For Everyone? >>> Arch Guard? >>> >>> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:46:59PM +0100,

Re: [arch-general] groupmod / pam bug - Arch hit by http://bugs.gentoo.org/300790

2010-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
If you run ABS, check the wiki[1] or search for the package on the web page. [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS On 1 March 2010 21:42, Tavian Barnes wrote: > On 1 March 2010 16:29,   wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 11:32:15AM -0700, jwbirdsong wrote: >> >>> Patch shadow your self w/ a

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel 2.6.32-1

2009-12-05 Thread Chris Bannister
Whats the plan re devtmpfs ? 2009/12/5 Roman Kyrylych : > On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 18:29, Emmanuel Benisty wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: >>> What's your chipset? Allan's chipset? No such issues here on 945GM. >> >> Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) 965GM > >

Re: [arch-general] only detect 1 cpu

2009-11-16 Thread Chris Bannister
Post the full output of dmesg 2009/11/16 : > Hi all! > > I have got a quad core procesor but my archlinux only detect 1 cpu. > --- > $ uname -a > Linux Nemesis 2.6.31-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 23 10:03:24 CEST 2009 x86_64 > Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux > -

Re: [arch-general] CUPS won't detect my usb printer

2009-11-15 Thread Chris Bannister
Do you have usblp loaded? lsmod | grep usblp 2009/11/15 Jim Burton : > Hi, I'm new to arch and unable to set up my (USB) Canon printer. I've read > quite a large number > of threads on the forum about this and suppose my solution is in there > somewhere but cups > doesn't recognise my printer fo

Re: [arch-general] Failover to LTS in the Arch boot processt?

2009-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
During early boot you can get kexec to load it as a panic kernel, but by then its too late I would have though. 2009/9/25 Aaron Griffin : > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:31 AM, David C. Rankin > wrote: >> Guys, >> >> I'm curious. Since there is now an LTS kernel, has anyone thought about >> adding

Re: [arch-general] Can't ssh to vServer running ArchLinux

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Bannister
Proabbly initab is set wrong, what was updated? 2009/9/11 Johannes Held : > Hello, > > after my latest update of my vServer, I wanted to ssh into this box. > But I'm given this error message and the ssh hangs: > > $ ssh bitterblume.com > PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 > > Is there any

Re: [arch-general] Btrfs rescue images -- Modified Arch

2009-06-17 Thread Chris Bannister
:D 2009/6/17 Andrei Thorp : > Excerpts from Tim Gelter's message of Wed Jun 17 15:49:46 -0400 2009: >> Looks like Chris Mason (the lead BTRFS developer @ Oracle) is a fan of Arch >> Linux...  :) > > Woot. Arch for the win, of course :D > -- > Andrei Thorp > Development Co-op > Xandros > andrei.th.

Re: [arch-general] Demons shutdown before processes.

2009-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
2009/6/15 Thomas Bächler : > Chris Bannister schrieb: >> >> If my soundcard is in use when I shutdown (which it normally is with >> MPD because I just sudo halt and expect linux to shutdown), this >> causes OSS to fail to unload, which in turn can leave my /var >&

Re: [arch-general] Demons shutdown before processes.

2009-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
2009/6/15 Aaron Griffin : > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: >> If my soundcard is in use when I shutdown (which it normally is with >> MPD because I just sudo halt and expect linux to shutdown), this >> causes OSS to fail to unload, which in t

[arch-general] Demons shutdown before processes.

2009-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
If my soundcard is in use when I shutdown (which it normally is with MPD because I just sudo halt and expect linux to shutdown), this causes OSS to fail to unload, which in turn can leave my /var partition mounted. Is there a specific reason it is done this way?

Re: [arch-general] 1080p playback

2009-06-02 Thread Chris Bannister
2009/6/2 Paulo Santos : > Chris Bannister wrote: >> >> 8800GTS 640mb has a G80 core and doesnt support VDPAU accelleration, >> the G92 core which comes with the 512 varients does. >> > > And it won't ever support it? It's a shame that such a good

Re: [arch-general] 1080p playback

2009-06-02 Thread Chris Bannister
2009/6/2 Christos Nouskas : > Paulo Santos wrote: >> I have a 8800GTS, the 640MB one, and a Core 2 Duo 6600 running at >> 2,4GHz. > > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/366852 > > > -- > X. > > 8800GTS 640mb has a G80 core and doesnt support VDPAU accelleration, the G92 core which co

Re: [arch-general] cpu usage very high after update...

2009-03-15 Thread Chris Bannister
What got updated? 2009/3/15 Preston C. : > My cpu monitor is almost reading 100%, right after I updated today. It > was a very large update because I hadn't updated in about a month. > Here is what "$top" gives me: > > > top - 16:22:55 up 9 min,  2 users,  load average: 1.36, 1.32, 0.68 > Tasks:  

Re: [arch-general] Nouveau sources not on the ftp

2009-03-06 Thread Chris Bannister
Yeah ive just noticed that lol. Thanks 2009/3/6 Xavier : > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: >> Hi, im trying to rebuild nouveau for zen kernel but the source isnt on >> the FTP [1], does anyone have it? Or shall i just build from git. >> >> Tha

[arch-general] Nouveau sources not on the ftp

2009-03-06 Thread Chris Bannister
Hi, im trying to rebuild nouveau for zen kernel but the source isnt on the FTP [1], does anyone have it? Or shall i just build from git. Thanks, Chris [1] ftp://archlinux.org/other/nouveau-drm/mesa-drm-20090303.tar.bz2

Re: [arch-general] xorg-server 1.6.0 in testing

2009-03-02 Thread Chris Bannister
Its a feature not a bug :P [1] [1] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=507746#p507746 2009/3/3 Flavio Costa : > I can't Control-Alt-Backspace to kill the X server anymore. > Same for some gnome shortcuts and they were working smoothly before the > update. > > Is anyone experiencing this pr

[arch-general] Unable to build mplayer with dvdnav support

2008-10-06 Thread Chris Bannister
HI, im trying to build mplayer with dvdnav support but havnt managed yet. Without --enable-dvdnav it will build but configure doesnt find dvdnav, with it it fails to build with this error http://paste.pocoo.org/show/87205/ Iibdvdnav is installed like this: /usr/bin/dvdnav-config /usr/include/dvd