Re: [arch] conservative/stable branch

2007-11-07 Thread James Rayner
On Wed, November 7, 2007 23:47, Zhukov Pavel wrote: > > I maintain some packages in community. Sorry, of course community it is't > official part of Arch, and TU's should stay trouble with packages alone. Sorry. I didn't realise you were a Trusted User, I take back my comment. James __

Re: [arch] conservative/stable branch

2007-11-07 Thread James Rayner
On Wed, November 7, 2007 22:00, Zhukov Pavel wrote: > It's like a beryl developing way - increasing features without > stabilization. After some time 30% of features unusable, other works > unstable, upgrade breaks anything. > > Lastest 'pacman -Syu' breaks something _every_time_! Nonsense. Eithe

Re: [arch] conservative/stable branch

2007-11-07 Thread James Rayner
On Wed, November 7, 2007 21:11, Zhukov Pavel wrote: > > 1) I know about Arch-Way. > > 2) Arch starts to accelerate developing process and growing up > repositories, however Devs/TUs count aren't growing - this way it becomes > more and more unstable. > Arch can be small but stable instead of big

Re: [arch] netcfg2 is now in [testing]

2007-11-07 Thread James Rayner
On Wed, November 7, 2007 09:32, Antony Jepson wrote: > John, > > netcfg 1.99.32-1 is indeed netcfg2. I believe it is called 1.99.32 > because it is in testing. When it comes out of testing, I suppose it > will be updated to netcfg2. Yup. Package name will remain netcfg, but version will bump to

Re: [arch] netcfg2 is now in [testing]

2007-11-06 Thread James Rayner
On Tue, November 6, 2007 19:34, Roman Kyrylych wrote: > 2007/11/6, James Rayner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> netcfg2 aims to be a refined network profile system for Arch Linux, >> replacing the current implementation. Through this, it has also gained >> various features

[arch] netcfg2 is now in [testing]

2007-11-05 Thread James Rayner
netcfg2 aims to be a refined network profile system for Arch Linux, replacing the current implementation. Through this, it has also gained various features and improvements which are listed on the development wiki page (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Scripts) Before it can replace the

[arch] slocate Replaced by mlocate

2007-11-05 Thread James Rayner
mlocate has replaced slocate as the default locate implementation after a short period in [testing], and an even longer one in [extra]. This was requested on the bug tracker a while back[1]. mlocate is used by Fedora at least and unlike slocate, no longer has the well known midnight updatedb crawl

[arch] [testing] mlocate replacing slocate

2007-11-02 Thread James Rayner
mlocate has replaced slocate as the default locate implementation, this is currently in [testing]. This was requested on the bug tracker a while back[1]. mlocate is used by Fedora at least and unlike slocate, no longer has the well known midnight updatedb crawl. In all other aspects it's compatibl

Re: [arch] [arch-dev-public] Problem with X?

2007-10-01 Thread James Rayner
On Mon, October 1, 2007 21:45, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Monday 01 October 2007, RedShift wrote: >> Jason Chu wrote: >> > I've got this weird problem that I think is caused by X. >> > >> > I've been following testing for a while now (so I have gnome, db, and >> > heimdal). >> > >> > Every so often, an

Re: [arch] U3 Cruzer USB flash issue

2007-09-18 Thread James Rayner
On Tue, September 18, 2007 00:53, Sergey Manucharian wrote: > Why not using such a feature? Of cause this "cdrom" can be easily > deleted from the U3 device. Because it's easier not to. It's like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. Instead, partition the flash drive, make the first partit

Re: [arch] U3 Cruzer USB flash issue

2007-09-15 Thread James Rayner
On Sat, September 15, 2007 19:38, Roman Kyrylych wrote: > 2007/9/14, Sergey Manucharian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm using U3 Cruzer USB 1GB flash drive. >> As many people may know upon plugging-in it provides both regular >> storage device and cdrom functionality. >> >> Before the lat

[arch] netcfg2 beta - Revamped network profiles

2007-08-27 Thread James Rayner
Looking for testers for netcfg2, which will replace the current netcfg/profile system. This is pretty much a rewrite of the current scripts, making them more intelligent, easier to use, maintain, and closes up many bugs that have been lingering for far too long. In addition, many feature requests

Re: [arch] booting with old kernels

2007-08-17 Thread James Rayner
On Sat, August 18, 2007 10:21, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: > Hello list, > > for testing purposes I need to boot my arch system using old versions of > linux. However, because of udev and libc, I doubt I'll be able to boot > old enough kernels. > > So what is the oldest kernel that should work out o

Re: [arch] Archlinux French Website(s)

2007-06-02 Thread James Rayner
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 08:58:47PM +0200, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > I don't choose the mailing list first. Plus, If I have to say that > someone > is stupid I will say it.In public or not. I don't care if my words > are not kind or pleasant. > And if I look wrong because I tell to someone that

Re: [arch] Archlinux French Website(s)

2007-06-01 Thread James Rayner
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 01:39:52PM +0200, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > If you can close your eyes on anything that these guys have done not > on me but on all > the french community, this your choice not mine. I'm working for the > benefit of the french community ie > not letting bad people do wha

Re: [arch] Archlinux French Website(s)

2007-05-31 Thread James Rayner
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:35:48AM +0200, solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: > hi. > > may be you will better understand the angry post for b.c. if you know that > archlinux.fr made an April Fool about the merge of archlinux.fr and > archlinuxfr.org. > > so if those people made such a joke, it's sure for

Re: [arch] Rsync server for an official Israeli mirror

2007-05-23 Thread James Rayner
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:15:22AM +0300, Roman Kyrylych wrote: > 2007/5/22, Shahar Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Good day. > > We have managed to get enough users in order to get an Israeli mirror for > > Arch. > > > > For that, however, our host would need the address of the official rsync > > s

Re: [arch] archlinux party!

2007-05-22 Thread James Rayner
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 04:46:49PM +1000, gnu2 wrote: > > > > > South Africa, anyone ? > > > > Hmmm, Looks like I'll need to do some traveling! > > Cool, I need a holiday! > > > > Wayn0 > > Australia, Sunshine Coast anyone? :-) > > drum > Nah, Melbourne's the place to be :) Is there anyone

Re: [arch] Reiser4

2007-05-21 Thread James Rayner
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 01:36:38PM +0200, Jaroslaw Swierczynski wrote: > 2007/5/21, Attila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I'm not a dev but from my view it doesn't make sense that because if the > > devs > > don't use reiser4 than they can't guarantee that it runs stable. A > > filesystem > > is to

Re: [arch] Reiser4

2007-05-19 Thread James Rayner
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 04:35:56PM -0700, eliott wrote: > > "Jaroslaw Swierczynski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Opinions? > > My opinion is: I think it is a bad idea to include reiser4 in the base kernel. > ditto. ABS is there for you, just add reiser4 to kernel26. James __

Re: [arch] Arch Kernels

2007-05-18 Thread James Rayner
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 12:58:04PM +0200, Arnaud Fortier wrote: > For exemple kernel-server could hav some ckserver patch and other > "related to server" patches, the same idea for laptop / desktop. > Another way could be to have a pkgbuild like the kernel26viper (on aur) > or wain's one where you

Re: [arch] Arch Kernels

2007-05-18 Thread James Rayner
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 03:46:35AM +0800, Gan Lu wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2007 09:12:06 +0200 > Attila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mittwoch, 16. Mai 2007 21:17 waldek wrote: > > > > > Let me explain then, I thought it was obvious :-) > > > How does it compare to booting another kernel and

Re: [arch] Fwd: [announce] Intel announces the PowerTOP utility for Linux

2007-05-14 Thread James Rayner
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 01:54:50PM +0200, bardo wrote: > On 5/14/07, James Rayner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > to be honest. I think it's a stupid idea. > > I don't think it's stupid. I think that *ATM* it shouldn't be > implemented

Re: [arch] Fwd: [announce] Intel announces the PowerTOP utility for Linux

2007-05-14 Thread James Rayner
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 05:56:48PM +0300, Roman Kyrylych wrote: > 2007/5/13, Marc Deop i Argemí <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sunday 13 May 2007, Roman Kyrylych wrote: > > > I'm thinking about kernel26laptop with all fine-tuning for laptops > > > (more than just kernel26suspend2) > > > > Wow, good id

Re: [arch] Failed to Read Hardware RAID 0 Partitioins

2006-08-26 Thread James Rayner
On Saturday 26 August 2006 22:46, Varun Acharya wrote: > Benoit Myard wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 04:00:30AM -0700, Lin, Zihui wrote: > >> I've got a NForce4 mainborad with RAID support, and two RAID 0 arrays > >> configured on it. Windows can read the partitions on the arrays well, > >> but

Re: [arch] Death to all top-repliers!

2006-08-14 Thread James Rayner
On Monday 14 August 2006 07:14, Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote: > Quite! Gmail defaults to top posting too AFAIK...so...that seems odd, > although I do agree that top posting is the devils work. Try the forums, > you can always bottom posts there :) Blaming the mail agent is weak, scrollbars or *

Re: [arch] Hi everybody, and Beyond problems

2006-08-05 Thread James Rayner
On Sunday 30 July 2006 23:13, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Rohan Dhruva schrieb: > > Most probably your problem is related to suspend2 itself and not the > > beyond kernel patchset. A better place, imo, to ask would be the > > suspend2 mailing lists. > > > > http://suspend2.net/lists > > No, ask on the

Re: [arch] j2sdk

2006-07-26 Thread James Rayner
On Thursday 20 July 2006 05:33, Eric Belanger wrote: > > These links works with wget. However, you need to specify the output file: > $ wget -O foo "URL" > otherwise you get a "filename too long" error. I don't > think makepkg can handle that. > > Eric > as a last resort, if a mirror cannot be fo

Re: [arch] disk too fragmented - reiserfs

2006-04-18 Thread James Rayner
On 4/19/06, Damir Perisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tuesday 18 April 2006 21:00, RedShift wrote: > | Don't worry about it. Fragmentation doesn't really have any effect > | on linux filesystems. > > it horribly has... my reiser3 root-fs is horribly fragmented and > access times are very bad... i

Re: [arch] Kernel 26 beyond suspend option?

2006-04-16 Thread James Rayner
On 4/17/06, Thorsten Grothe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oscar Carlsson schrieb: > > It means that suspend2 doesn't find everything it needs to work properly. > > Unless you are in a dire need of software suspend (hibernate is what > > it's called in windows), dismiss this message :-) > > Ok thank

Re: [arch] Weird issue after update on a fresh install: now booting Arch 0.6 Widget !?

2006-04-14 Thread James Rayner
On 4/14/06, kozaki.dev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Fri, 14 Apr 2006 10:17:11 +0200, James Rayner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a > écrit : > > > On 4/14/06, kozaki.dev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Now, yesterday after pacman -Syu (new kernel-

Re: [arch] Weird issue after update on a fresh install: now booting Arch 0.6 Widget !?

2006-04-14 Thread James Rayner
On 4/14/06, kozaki.dev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Got a very very strange issue in this location > > As a I'm selling my small laptop (Toshiba Portégé 7200 Series, workin > great with Arch since months) to a newbie, I formated the HDD & started a > new easy-to-use configuration of Arch on i

Re: [arch] Why ArchLinux make application program launch so slowly

2006-04-13 Thread James Rayner
On 4/14/06, Mike McQueen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 13 April 2006 19:30, Hongxing Soong wrote: > > Boot up process is very quick under ArchLinux for not much work to > > load,but when > > program when loaded in X window(I use gnome 2.14),such as acroread , > > kile (need 2 minites or

Re: [arch] Should I see RMS?

2006-04-06 Thread James Rayner
On 4/7/06, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm debating going to this, but also throwing this out there for > anyone in the Chicago-land area. > > ===>> > > April 28, 2006: *Seminar: * The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux > Operating System* > >The University of Illinois at C

Re: [arch] Python package out of date.

2006-04-06 Thread James Rayner
On 4/6/06, Rohan Dhruva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, python and abiword are both maintained by dorphell ... > > Glibc cannot be updated to 2.4 since it completely drops linuxthreads > support, and hence 2.4 series of linux kernel is obsoleted. This is not easy > for arch, since it officially

Re: [arch] 'current changes' news article

2006-04-01 Thread James Rayner
On 4/1/06, Hussam Al-Tayeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this all April's fools day or is some of it true? > What does the date tell you :) -- iphitus - ArchCK Maintainer, Arch Trusted User, Arch Developer. Home:iphitus.loudas.com ___ arch mailing l

Re: [arch] Intel Modem users out there?

2006-03-30 Thread James Rayner
On 3/30/06, Tom K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tobias Powalowski wrote: > > Hi > > we have a license problem with the new 2.6.16 kernel and intel modem > > drivers. > > intel536ep and intel537, > > atm there is no legal option to provide longer support for those drivers > > with > > kernels >= 2.

Re: [arch] Restart and Shutdown - do it faster?

2006-03-30 Thread James Rayner
It's easy to forget how sarcasm can be lost online. I thought the ridiculousness of the suggestion would be enough. Usually when I do hard power down my laptop, i usually use the magic sysrq to sync partitions. Generally there arent all too many changes though, as the computer just boots straight

Re: [arch] Restart and Shutdown - do it faster?

2006-03-29 Thread James Rayner
On 3/30/06, Rhythm.G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I like the idea, though I don't know any program language. I do be bored > with gdm error messages and quite slow process on my system(sometimes > more than 2 minutes to shutdown). > The power button shuts off pretty quickly. Works well on my lapto

Re: [arch] Memory leak problem

2006-03-28 Thread James Rayner
On 3/29/06, David Rosenstrauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jan de Groot wrote: > > > > Try using some other theme, gtk-qt-engine is known to cause trouble now > > and then. > > The reason why X is eating loads of memory all the time is because your > > theme engine could preload pixmaps into X and

Re: [arch] USB 2 problem

2006-03-28 Thread James Rayner
On 3/28/06, Luca Peduto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Michal, > try to load the ehci_hcd module. > > Read his post > On 27/03/06, Michal M. Lechanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > I have problem with usb2 devices, I tried 2 card readers and one usb > > key, and all are working only in usb1.1

Re: [arch] Arch Bootstrap

2006-03-28 Thread James Rayner
On 3/28/06, Roberto Griso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok, but i'm using udev, i try to append udev string to lilo but nothing. Udev still needs those two files in /dev mknod -m 660 console c 5 1 mknod -m 660 null c 1 3 -- iphitus - ArchCK Maintainer, Arch Trusted User, Arch Developer. Home:iphi

Re: [arch] ipod gtkpod

2006-03-28 Thread James Rayner
On 3/28/06, Eric Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gtkpod gives permission errors when trying to sync > Probably because you mounted it as root. /dev/ipod /mnt/ipod vfat noatime,noauto,user,umask=000,quiet,exec 0 0 is my fstab line. I use that and run mount /dev/ipod as your user. As for GTKpod cr

Re: [arch] ipod gtkpod

2006-03-28 Thread James Rayner
On 3/28/06, Eric Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yes, the directory exists but the only thing in there is this: > /mnt/ipod/iPod_Control/iTunes/firsttime > Look in community at my package gnupod, read through it's tutorial on the homepage, it's clear and simple, add a couple of songs if you like,

Re: [arch] Arch Bootstrap

2006-03-27 Thread James Rayner
On 3/28/06, Roberto Griso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I try that script but the boot process stops with "Unable to open initial > console" error message Go to the /dev/ directory of your new system, and run these: mknod -m 660 console c 5 1 mknod -m 660 null c 1 3 James -- iphitus - ArchCK Ma

Re: [arch] ipod gtkpod

2006-03-27 Thread James Rayner
On 3/28/06, Eric Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in gtkpod when under file > read iTunesDB i get an error saying > "'/mnt/ipod/iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesDB' does not exist. Import aborted" > how can i import it? Looks like your ipod has no music database. Easiest way I know to get one is to boot

Re: [arch] ipod gtkpod

2006-03-27 Thread James Rayner
On 3/28/06, Eric Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > i can't seem to find any howto or relevant information on how to setup ipod > nano with gtkpod or banchee. banchee keeps crashing after mounting the ipod. > can someone point me to some more information? this must have been discussed > somew

Re: [arch] Hedilinux - flattery or rip-off?

2006-03-24 Thread James Rayner
On 3/25/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've read a review. Apparently it gives you a choice of nano or vi for edting > start up files. The claim that it could be set up by novices was rebutted. > > So, it is a clone in some ways. Their updating system was commended. My guess > i

Re: [arch] Suggestion regarding improving website usability

2006-03-15 Thread James Rayner
Just my thoughts: If we do this, we ought to spend quite a bit of time evaluating all of the different options. And there are a lot. Let's not discuss specifics of each option yet. Before I mention this, I know little of the specifics, and implications of such an approach and possibly dont really

[arch] ArchCK in Extra, madwifi-ng in [unstable], ATI drivers renamed.

2006-03-09 Thread James Rayner
I have had to rename the ATI drivers a second time. Soon there will be driver packages in the repos for ArchCK as well, and I decided it was best to bite the bullet, and make the ati drivers concordant with this new naming scheme, rather than risk user confusion later on. The new drivers are know

Re: [arch] difference between auto-detecting modules and manually define them

2006-03-06 Thread James Rayner
> > Hi Archers, > > > > I have a question about the new Udev that is available. In the > > wiki-article it is written, that you can use the auto-loading function > > of udev for your modules or you can write the needed modules in the > > MODULES-array. So what should I use? And what about the ker

Re: [arch] initrd and unused permanent modules

2006-03-02 Thread James Rayner
On 3/2/06, Dimitrios Apostolou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Bächler wrote: > > Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: > > > >>I think it is a problem that the initrd used in arch loads many modules > >>that are completely useless, which can't be removed later. It just > >>insmod 's all possible modules

Re: [arch] idees about mirror

2006-02-24 Thread James Rayner
But all the mirrors sync the db file from the main mirror. He means uploading all the files, but not a matching db,so the servers can have however long, hours, days, to make sure they get a complete sync, before puttin a DB up. On 2/24/06, Dale Blount <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-2

Re: [arch] Request: Suspend/Resume for SATA devices patch for kernel26 package

2006-02-11 Thread James Rayner
Just fyi, this patch is included in the kernel26archck package available in community. iphitus On 2/12/06, Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been running Arch for a couple of weeks and i'm very happy with it. > It is great! I really like the overal simpleness of the system; stuf

Re: [arch] kernel26archck and memory usage

2006-02-06 Thread James Rayner
I enable 4g highmem, rather than the 1g option as it is a realistic possibility that an Arch user may have 2g or more. As for the modules, previously, some those and many many more were *compiled-into* your kernel. Now, you would most likely have less loaded than before, as there is substantially

Re: [arch] Providing python docs

2006-02-03 Thread James Rayner
I find the inbuilt help option is fine, and when I need more I just use the docs online, or extracted from a tarball available online. Maybe a seperate package, but i dont think there is a need to add them to the Arch package. iphitus On 2/3/06, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/2/

Re: [arch] Network and memory problems

2006-01-31 Thread James Rayner
The memory appears used, but most likely it is going into cache. If you dont have a slowdown and swap isnt being used, I wouldnt be too concerned. On 1/31/06, Arnaud Fortier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think FF 1.5 take 1GB of RAM also if it is closed. It's much a > problem of freeing mem

Re: [arch] ndiswrapper & SMP

2006-01-30 Thread James Rayner
nyway, I will still be using arch even if nothing > > happens. > > > > Oscar Estrada > > > > > > On 1/30/06, James Rayner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As has been mentioned, feel free to use the nosmp > > option. > > > > > >

Re: [arch] ndiswrapper & SMP

2006-01-30 Thread James Rayner
As has been mentioned, feel free to use the nosmp option. A full distro kernel compile takes more than half an hour on my system, and quite possibly well over an hour on most peoples so I am sure you can understand the extra time and work that would be involved for our already overloaded devs. P

Re: [arch] ati-drivers and kernel26archck 2.6.15

2006-01-26 Thread James Rayner
Go ask ATI to make drivers that arent crap. That pretty much sums up the situation with the ATI drivers :) iphitus On 1/27/06, Kernel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have gone away from the stock 2.6.15 kernel (doesn't just occur with > kernel26archck) and the vanila 2.6.15 kernel as the fglrx (v

Re: [arch] FYI... If you use the CK patchset, this is for you...

2006-01-24 Thread James Rayner
On 1/24/06, Andrew Conkling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/23/06, Pierluigi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2006/1/23, Andrew Conkling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > Thanks for the update. I couldn't find the according mailing list > > > message. What does the performance have to do with? I

Re: [arch] windows xp like issues

2006-01-18 Thread James Rayner
Thats what I was going to say... anyone here on ndiswrapper? My box has been locking up continually all day :) On 1/18/06, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most hard freezes tend to be acpi related - try booting with > "acpi=off" and see if that helps. > > Also, ndiswrapper tends to caus

Re: [arch] kernel26archck wants to replace kernel26

2006-01-17 Thread James Rayner
Yes, it was a bad goof up with the replaces line, but hopefully it was a blessing in disguise -- There were some other flaws with that kernel too, so hopefully it stopped people using it. The original line there was replaces kernel26scsi, Which I didnt remove properly, leaving kernel26. Oops :/

[arch] 2.6.15-archck1

2006-01-12 Thread James Rayner
ArchCK is a patchset based on the CK patchset. ArchCK aims to include a variety of popular features and updates that have not yet made it to the vanilla kernel, without compromising stability. Con Kolivas' CK patchset is the most important part of ArchCK, as it provides the great interactivity and

Re: [arch] Visio for linux

2005-12-28 Thread James Rayner
Inkscape added support for connectors in its most recent version, so it is usable as a flowcharting tool On 12/29/05, Damir Perisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 在 星期四 29 十二月 2005 00:21,RedShift 写道: > | Is there something like microsoft visio but for linux? I can't find > | anything good. It doesn

[arch] 2.6.14-archck7

2005-12-26 Thread James Rayner
ArchCK is a patchset based on the CK patchset. ArchCK aims to include a variety of popular features and updates that have not yet made it to the vanilla kernel, without compromising stability. Con Kolivas' CK patchset is the most important part of ArchCK, as it provides the great interactivity and

Re: [arch] cups totally borked

2005-12-21 Thread James Rayner
On 12/20/05, darren kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > It seems I am fighting a losing battle with cups once again. I swear, cups is > the single most difficult app I have ever had to deal with... > > Background: > HP Business InkJet 1200 > cups 1.1.23-5 > hplip 0.9.7-1 > foomatic-db

Re: [arch] Shells

2005-12-21 Thread James Rayner
On 12/21/05, Oscar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try using non ASCII-characters in zsh. > fish looks pretty intresting, tho :) > > Oscar > 4.3.1 which will apparently be released before christmas, has unicode support. I'd like to see a change :) Many users wouldnt notice the difference, and those

Re: [arch] X.org 7.0 hits testing tonight

2005-12-20 Thread James Rayner
This update is going to cause so much to break, so many lazy programmers have always hardcoded X to /usr/X11R6. Maybe there ought to be a symlink in the package from /usr/X11R6/ to /usr/ to make up for some of these? Or are the structural changes so deep that most things have moved? James -

Re: [arch] X.org 7.0 hits testing tonight

2005-12-20 Thread James Rayner
Does X still use /usr/X11R6? or is it now a happy normal citizen in /usr/ ? -- iphitus - ArchCK Maintainer, Arch Trusted User. Home:iphitus.loudas.com ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

Re: [arch] Kernel 2.6.14 and ipw2200

2005-12-19 Thread James Rayner
> I've seen some posts on the message boards from users with ipw2200 cards > and the new kernel having some troubles. > > First off most of the version of ipw2200 in the kernel is 1.0.0 which is > rather old. ..if a trusted user would take this up > so the packages would make it into c

Re: [arch] new udev (no hotplug) does not autoload sbp2 (firewire storage)

2005-12-16 Thread James Rayner
On 12/16/05, Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Damir Perisa schrieb: > > of course, if module is loaded at boot, it works fine. however, i think > > module loading in such simple cases (firewire storage) should be done > > automatically, when device is attached or powered on. > Or he sho

Re: [arch] Moving /home

2005-12-13 Thread James Rayner
I've used cp -pax multiple times with no problems. I realise one of the parameters is duplicated, but its easy to remember like that :) Just cp -pax from old home to new one, and then change fstab. ciao from sunny queensland, iphitus -- iphitus - ArchCK Maintainer, Arch Trusted User. Home:iphit

Re: [arch] IPV6 in Arch Kernel

2005-12-11 Thread James Rayner
On 12/12/05, Jason Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would it be possible for IPv6 be compiled as a module in the default > arch kernel? > > Certain applications, including Java and KDE networking (konqueror, > etc), try to use IPV6 if its available, but if the network you are on > does not supp

Re: [arch] patchs

2005-12-06 Thread James Rayner
s also the newsletter. Oh and the Dev blog too. James Rayner -- iphitus - archck maintainer, arch trusted user. Home:iphitus.loudas.com ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

Re: [arch] patchs

2005-12-06 Thread James Rayner
On 12/6/05, Arnaud Fortier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree with benoit ! > Initscripts / php / udev / hotplug / hwdetect ... these packages SHOULD > be tested before release in current ! And also largely commented with > some kind of HOW-TO ! > A good exemple is the remove of synchronisation b

Re: [arch] Fwd: Latest testing udev conflicts with hotplug

2005-12-06 Thread James Rayner
On 12/6/05, Khashayar Naderehvandi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having this same symptom with udev-076-4. Device > nodes aren't created when inserting USB-disk. > > regards, > > /K. > modprobe sd_mod and add to modules line on boot. -- iphitus - archck maintainer, arch trusted user. Home:iph

Re: [arch] Latest testing udev conflicts with hotplug

2005-12-05 Thread James Rayner
s (no idea why), didnt work. I hope these have been accounted for with hwdetect, cause if they aint, that's a huge broken change thats been implemented. James Rayner -- iphitus - archck maintainer Home:iphitus.loudas.com Blog: iphitus.blogspot.com ___

Re: [arch] All kinds of trouble with ipw2200 1.0.8

2005-11-27 Thread James Rayner
On 11/28/05, Peter Galiovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have all kinds of trouble with ipw2200 1.0.8 and ieee80211 1.1.6. > > For example, Kismet isn't working at all. When I start it, it seemingly > correctly puts the card in monitor mode (at least according to iwconfig > printout)

Re: [arch] hotplugging, hotplug, hwdetect etc.

2005-11-21 Thread James Rayner
On 11/22/05, Scott Weisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I've been reading about the ongoing development of hotplug > alternatives with interest, but I am confused. > > I see that it is possible, and now it seems even preferable, to remove > hotplug from the DAEMONS line in rc.conf. D

Re: [arch] XFCE4 theming contest

2005-11-19 Thread James Rayner
On 11/20/05, Tobias Kieslich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, there might be not too many people reading the dev-blog so I like to > point you to this entry: > http://www.archlinux.org/blog/2005/11/17/xfce-4-theming-contest/ > If anyone is interested in doing some Arch-related artwork, jump on the

Re: [arch] hplip problems

2005-11-17 Thread James Rayner
> The last time I looked, the old PKGBUILD for hpoj is no longer available in > ABS. However the patches it installs are still in ABS. At least that's what > I see after I do abs as the command line. > > That said, I have an old copy of the PKGBUILD for hpoj, with the URL > slightly changed to one

Re: [arch] arch and info

2005-11-15 Thread James Rayner
On 11/16/05, Ken Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 03:25:44PM +0200, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: > > I think the cleanest solution would be creating seperate packages with > > info docs. Only when someone has enabled a specific flag in pacman conf > > file those would be a

Re: [arch] hplip problems

2005-11-15 Thread James Rayner
I also am not a fan of HPLIP, it's QT dependent, meaning that I have to install X and QT and all their deps on my server, and it's never worked as well for me. Would it be possible to leave HPIJS in the repos? -- iphitus - archck maintainer Home:iphitus.loudas.com Blog: iphitus.blogspot.com

Re: [arch] arch and info

2005-11-15 Thread James Rayner
ont we use info2man which I put in the AUR earlier to convert it at the makepkg? Then we get no info pages, people get their man pages, and everyone is happy. James Rayner -- iphitus - archck maintainer Home:iphitus.loudas.com Blog: iphitus.blogspot.com ___

Re: [arch] arch and info

2005-11-14 Thread James Rayner
On 11/15/05, James Rayner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://freshmeat.net/projects/info2man/ > Packaged and uploaded info2man. The package is just a perl script, there is no make file, install script or installation instructions. I know little about perl and couldnt find any det

Re: [arch] arch and info

2005-11-14 Thread James Rayner
should package this up, put it on the aur if it isnt already, and then file a bug in hope that they use info2man in the package? http://freshmeat.net/projects/info2man/ Anyway, I'm just trying to find a productive solution rather than an argument over arch's objectives. James R

Re: [arch] 2.6.14-archck4

2005-11-11 Thread James Rayner
On 11/12/05, Andreas Radke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There´s one thing I miss: the new uli526x network driver. It should be > included as modul. It belongs to /driver/net/tulip. It´s already in the > stable kernel and working fine so far. > Take that one up with dibble, I havn't removed it with

Re: [arch] [ck] 2.6.14-archck4

2005-11-11 Thread James Rayner
On 11/11/05, Avuton Olrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/9/05, James Rayner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ArchCK is a derivation of the CK patchset that is taking a similar > > path to the old CKO patchset. It aims to include a variety of popular > ... &g

Re: [arch] 2.6.14-archck4

2005-11-10 Thread James Rayner
On 11/11/05, James Rayner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a question... what stops us from putting drivers in the initramfs? > And it looks like it has been... scroll down to the end of this section here, http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbspl

Re: [arch] 2.6.14-archck4

2005-11-10 Thread James Rayner
On 11/11/05, James Rayner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/11/05, Philip Dillon-Thiselton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the tip but alas the whole point of fbsplash is that it is > > managed from userspace - the problems with fbsplash stem directly from >

Re: [arch] 2.6.14-archck4

2005-11-10 Thread James Rayner
On 11/11/05, Philip Dillon-Thiselton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the tip but alas the whole point of fbsplash is that it is > managed from userspace - the problems with fbsplash stem directly from > it's "working parts" being removed from the kernel :( > The terrible thing is that, boo

Re: [arch] 2.6.14-archck4

2005-11-09 Thread James Rayner
> James, > > Is this release, and subsequent releases going to use the initrd path > that the testing Arch kernel is using? > Just keep in mind that it's dibblethewrecker maintaining the actual package at the moment, so I can't take all the credit. The initrd path has been discussed, however we do

[arch] 2.6.14-archck4

2005-11-09 Thread James Rayner
ArchCK is a derivation of the CK patchset that is taking a similar path to the old CKO patchset. It aims to include a variety of popular features and updates that have not currently made it to the vanilla kernel without compromising stability. Con Kolivas' CK patchset is the core of ArchCK and woul

Re: [arch] 2.6.14-archck1

2005-10-29 Thread James Rayner
On 10/29/05, Tom K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So 2.6.14-archck1 built, installed, and booted without a problem - nice > one James. However, I have a problem recompiling my wlan-ng driver > against it. The error looks like this (I have included some warnings > preceding the error because they do n

Re: [arch] 2.6.14-archck1

2005-10-28 Thread James Rayner
On 10/29/05, Tom K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Conkling wrote: > > >On 10/28/05, James Rayner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Changelog: > >>updated ck to 2.6.14-ck1 > >> > >> > > > >Whee! Jame

[arch] 2.6.14-archck1

2005-10-28 Thread James Rayner
be in the community repo sometime soon. It seems like a pretty good solid release. If anyone has any issues with this, or additions they would like, drop me a line. Enjoy, James Rayner -- iphitus - archck maintainer Home:iphitus.loudas.com Blog: iphitus.blogspo

Re: [arch] Keyboard stopped working - Can't logon now

2005-10-27 Thread James Rayner
> Why would putting [k]dm as a daemon in the rc.conf be a problem? I've been > doing that ever since I started using Arch (~2 years now), and have never had > a problem with it. I list kdm as the last daemon to start up, and > everything's peaches and cream. Why would you say that's a bad ide

Re: [arch] random pacman idea

2005-10-26 Thread James Rayner
On 10/26/05, A. S. Budden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 25/10/05, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/20/05, James Rayner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 10/19/05, Judd Vinet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon,

Re: [arch] Keyboard stopped working - Can't logon now

2005-10-25 Thread James Rayner
On 10/26/05, Oscar Estrada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 25 October 2005 12:03 am, Paul Hoy wrote: > > HI all, > > > > Perhaps someone can suggest a solution - > > > > My keyboard suddenly stopped working in arch today. I don't know whether > > it's related, but about an hour before my sy

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