[arch-general] community/vlock vs core/kbd vlock
Hi, I used to rely on xautolock + community/vlock for locking my X session, core/kbd however removed community/vlock in favor of its own vlock which lack the functionality I need. Besides -a -a,--all Lock all console sessions and disable VC switching. not working This tty (pts/5) is not a virtual console. The entire console display cannot be locked. I also used -n and -s -n,--new Switch to a new virtual console before locking all console sessions. -s,--disable-sysrq Disable the SysRq mechanism while consoles are locked. This option only works if the -a,--all option given. that the new vlock is lacking. Not wanting to revert to slock I reworked community/vlock into my system in a foul manner I'm not going to mention here. I've also read https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/33134 http://www.spinics.net/lists/util-linux-ng/msg07153.html https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=156308 http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-203953.html :D I'm not sure what my question should be, really, but I would like to be able to use the 2.2.3 functionality (-ans) without having an ugly hacky setup. Regards, -- Fredrik
Re: [arch-general] Single Person ISP?
So recently Verizon has stopped letting me do free tethering and I've been looking for a replacement. Apparently all of the free ISPs I can find all require that you use their shitty Windows program to connect, so I decided, I have a phone line, a modem and an internet connection, maybe I can make my own ISP. Basically, I want to take a computer with a dialup modem and an ethernet connection to a cable modem and make it so whenever someone calls, the computer picks up and acts like an ISP (requests username/password, then forwards all requests to the cable modem). Obviously, it wouldn't be that great (added latency, phone line won't work while it's active), but it's at least theoretically possible. I'm just wondering if there's software designed to do it. -Brendan Long Sounds like you want to create a modem pool. There are stuff on the internet about this. I did a quick google but I didn't have time to read them all :) You could look at RAS if that would suit you better :) Best regards Fredrik Eriksson
[arch-general] Bind 9.6.1-1 patched against dynamic update ddos?
Hi, I've seen that there's a dynamic update ddos attack that is widely available on the net and after looking for the solution it seems that bind's latest patch (9.6.1-P1) solves this problem. So my question is more like this, is extra/bind 9.6.1-1 in the repository the same as bind 9.6.1-P1? The build date of the current package in extra/ says the 18 July but the homepage of BIND says the latest patch was published the 28 July. Best regards Fredrik Eriksson
Re: [arch-general] Bind 9.6.1-1 patched against dynamic update ddos?
Damien Churchill skrev: 2009/7/29 Fredrik Eriksson fredrik.eriks...@gigabit.nu: Hi, I've seen that there's a dynamic update ddos attack that is widely available on the net and after looking for the solution it seems that bind's latest patch (9.6.1-P1) solves this problem. So my question is more like this, is extra/bind 9.6.1-1 in the repository the same as bind 9.6.1-P1? The build date of the current package in extra/ says the 18 July but the homepage of BIND says the latest patch was published the 28 July. Best regards Fredrik Eriksson Judging by the Ubuntu package version it is P2 that fixes the current ddos issue, not read too much into it though so I could be wrong. I checked their mail sent (again just to be sure :P) to FD this morning. Their patches were for versions 9.3.2-2, 9.4.2 P2 and 9.5.0 P2. Best regards Fredrik Eriksson
Re: [arch-general] problem while bridging network
You can, with some hacking. Â However I have yet to successfully make this work with a win 7 VM. For XP in virtualbox, the following should work: 1) Set up the VM, ensuing the 3d accel checkbox is checked 2) Install XP 3) Install the virtualbox guest additions 4) Install wined3d into in windows from here: http://aybabtu.com/rmh/wined3d/ After that, you should have fully operational opengl and d3d acceleration in your XP guest machine. Â I have used this successfully with audiosurf, other games may or may not work depending on what hardware checks they make and what parts of d3d they use. NOTE: you should disable mouse integration when playing games under this. Â The integration features mess up the mouse controls rather badly. NOTE: When wined3d asks you which parts to install, do NOT check the first one, for direct2d. Â Doing so will break your XP install. Checking the directx 8, 9 and 10 boxes however are all safe, so far as I can tell. HTH -Aren Olson -- Whoever said sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. - K. Jackson Ubuntu Linux - www.ubuntu.com Huh, this is excellent information, thanks. Probably still slow and regular Wine bugginess, but maybe worth trying. I have a friend at work who's a serious Eve addict. He might find this very interesting also. Cheers :) I would actually recommend using Cedega if you're too run Eve: Online. I've dualboxed the game running nvidia twinview and cedega and it worked perfectly on my GT6800. I guess it should work fine with Wine also. I never experienced any bugginess and it wasn't at all slow :) Best regards Fredrik Eriksson
Re: [arch-general] weird messages
A quick google gave me this, seems like the error was found in an earlier kernel version and is back in 2.6.28-7. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=55214 Best regards Fredrik Eriksson My server's been getting a load of weird messages in my dmesg and log files recently: Mar 16 06:38:27 darsys9 kernel: ata4: EH complete And sometimes also: Mar 16 06:38:27 darsys9 kernel: ata4: EH pending after 5 tries, giving up Anyone know what this is about and/or if there's some recent upgrade that might be causing it? I googled up some info about it (including a thread about it on the Arch forum), but all the info I could find is older and says that (at the time) the cause was a particular kernel version, and that upgrading the kernel would make it go away. But as I'm up-to-date with the current kernel, that's obviously not the issue now. Any info appreciated! TIA, DR
Re: [arch-general] [gcc-4.3] segfault when runnung -O3 compiled c++ code
Ahh, nevermind :P I missed that you wrote you're on arch64, i'm still on 32bits :P Best Regards Fredrik Eriksson Maik Beckmann wrote: Am Donnerstag 26 Juni 2008 10:13:13 schrieb Maik Beckmann: Hi, Can someone confirm that this http://codepad.org/I313t7BN compiled with g++ -O3 test.cpp -o test gives a segfault when trying to run it via ./test ?? I mailed to the gcc-help list regarding this issue: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.help/24804 Thanks, -- Maik PS: I'm on arch64, no testing no unstable. I just managed to debootstrap ubuntu hardy amd64 to a partition. Same segfault! Thank you people for helping me hunting down this bug. I'll file a bug report to gcc. -- Maik
