Re: [arch-general] Why does network interface sometimes change name?

[Felix E. Klee]

After a reboot (due to BSOD in the Windows host - faulty RAM) the
interface name changed from eth0 to eno1636:

$ ifconfig eno1636
eno1636: flags=4163UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST  mtu 1500
inet 192.168.101.129  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast
192.168.101.255
inet6 fe80::7e13:1a20:5a2a:75b8  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20link
ether 00:0c:29:12:0e:9e  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
RX packets 98  bytes 13331 (13.0 KiB)
RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
TX packets 82  bytes 17412 (17.0 KiB)
TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
device interrupt 19  base 0x2000

Note that the MAC address stayed the same: 00:0c:29:12:0e:9e

So I don’t understand at all why the interface changes it’s name.

Re: [arch-general] Why does network interface sometimes change name?

[Felix E. Klee]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Guus Snijders gsnijd...@gmail.com wrote:
 First make sure that vmware always uses the same mac address for this
 vm.

If the MAC address changes, I would expect the name to change from
`eno1636` to something like `eno52423433`. I wouldn’t expect it to
change to `eth0`.

Anyhow, it could be interesting to watch for changes. Currently the
interface is named `eth0` with `00:0c:29:12:0e:9e` as MAC address:

$ ifconfig eth0
eth0: flags=4163UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST  mtu 1500
inet 192.168.101.10  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast
192.168.101.255
inet6 fe80::7e13:1a20:5a2a:75b8  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20link
ether 00:0c:29:12:0e:9e  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
RX packets 75773  bytes 81703677 (77.9 MiB)
RX errors 1  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
TX packets 33366  bytes 2056250 (1.9 MiB)
TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
device interrupt 19  base 0x2000

Perhaps someone can tell from the above output what’s happening.

Re: [arch-general] How to change Wayland resolution to 1024x768?

[Felix E. Klee]

`vga=792` in the kernel command line did the trick at least for 1024x768:

http://pierre.baudu.in/other/grub.vga.modes.html

[arch-general] Why does network interface sometimes change name?

[Felix E. Klee]

I am running Arch as a guest in VMware Player on Win7X64. On every odd
boot, the name of the network interface changes. Sometimes it is:

eno1636

Sometimes it is:

eth0

This makes it really hard to configure a fixed IP, which I do by
having in `/etc/dhcpcd.conf`:

interface eno1636
static ip_address=192.168.101.10/24
static routers=192.168.101.2
static domain_name_servers=192.168.101.2

I have to change back and forth the interface name in that configuration file.

[arch-general] How to change Wayland resolution to 1024x768?

[Felix E. Klee]

System: VMware Player

I added as kernel parameter: drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=edid/1024x768.bin

However, when I run `weston-launch`, then I always get an 800x600 desktop.

Re: [arch-general] Window manager with resolution independent decorations?

[Felix E. Klee]

Now checking out [Wayland compositors][1]. Thing is that on different
virtual desktops I need different resolution, and I was told that
Wayland would handle resolution changes better than X.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_display_servers#Wayland

[arch-general] Window manager with resolution independent decorations?

[Felix E. Klee]

For example, I want to specify that the title bar should be 5mm tall.

Re: [arch-general] Window manager with resolution independent decorations?

[Felix E. Klee]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Felix E. Klee felix.k...@inka.de wrote:
 Wayland would handle resolution changes better than X.

Or rather the compositor could zoom the entire desktop.