Re: [arch-general] Arch artwork & compiz screenshot

2009-05-12 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
Op Wed, 13 May 2009 00:49:50 -0500 schreef "David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E." : > 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

[arch-general] Arch artwork & compiz screenshot

2009-05-12 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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 cubecap

Re: [arch-general] kdm3 crash on logout - no apparrent errors

2009-05-12 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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 logi

Re: [arch-general] Gnome update failed

2009-05-12 Thread Alessandro Doro
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 06:34:40PM -0300, Manolo wrote: > Hello everyone, the last month when I was trying to update with pacman > -Syu, this error message showed up: > usr/sbin/gconfpkg: line 18: 21838 Violaci�n de segmento > GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --get-default-source` > /usr/

Re: [arch-general] Gnome update failed

2009-05-12 Thread Christopher Daley
Once you've logged in to Gnome try switching to a TTY and as root run "killall compiz". From the gray screen with compiz effects activated it sounds like a driver issue when loading compiz that turns the entire screen that color. On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Manolo wrote: > Hello everyone,

[arch-general] Gnome update failed

2009-05-12 Thread Manolo
Hello everyone, the last month when I was trying to update with pacman -Syu, this error message showed up: usr/sbin/gconfpkg: line 18: 21838 Violaci�n de segmento GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --get-default-source` /usr/bin/gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule /usr/share/gconf/schemas/$

Re: [arch-general] Did new kernel version removed vesa FB?

2009-05-12 Thread Damjan Georgievski
> Well, I tried it, and I got uvesafb working (that's way better than no > FB at all), but I can't get it to work properly.  It seems uvesafb is > not paying attention to: > > % grep '^options' /etc/modprobe.d/uvesafb > options uvesafb mode_option=1920x1200...@75 scroll=ywrap > > I've tried other r

Re: [arch-general] Did new kernel version removed vesa FB?

2009-05-12 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 5/12/09, Damjan Georgievski wrote: >> I few minutes ago I upgraded a arch box (x86_64), and to my surprise, >> something that was working before, loading the kernel with parameter >> "vga=0x37D" is no longer working (nothing happens). The new version >> is 2.6.29.3-1. The resolution for nvidi

Re: [arch-general] New vi/vim/gvim in testing requires intervention

2009-05-12 Thread Tobias Kieslich
On Tue, 12 May 2009, Aaron Schaefer wrote: > This will mean that all plugin packages will have to be rebuilt for > each minor Vim release? Is that how other distro's handle it? Seems a > bit odd... Minor releases don't happend more than once a year. It's not that much of a biggie. Honestly, I on't

Re: [arch-general] New vi/vim/gvim in testing requires intervention

2009-05-12 Thread Aaron Schaefer
Since I can't reply to the dev mailing list thread: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Dan McGee wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Tobias Kieslich wrote: >> On Tue, 12 May 2009, Magnus Therning wrote: >> That means all plugins need to be rebuild and some users that set fixed >> pathes in .

Re: [arch-general] New vi/vim/gvim in testing requires intervention

2009-05-12 Thread Dan McGee
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Tobias Kieslich wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 2009, Magnus Therning wrote: And a quick guess, it looks like the new vim package puts its colors here: /usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/ Any reason the old /usr/share/vim/ shouldn't be on the default runtimepa

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] grub2 image support

2009-05-12 Thread Damjan Georgievski
Maybe the "General Discussion about Arch Linux" mail list is better place about this? (ps. I just now notice http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-general - the description has a typo "Discusson") On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 00:23, Ronald van Haren wrote: > Hi, > > For those of you who ar

Re: [arch-general] Did new kernel version removed vesa FB?

2009-05-12 Thread Damjan Georgievski
> I few minutes ago I upgraded a arch box (x86_64), and to my surprise, > something that was working before, loading the kernel with parameter > "vga=0x37D" is no longer working (nothing happens).  The new version > is 2.6.29.3-1.  The resolution for nvidia quadro  fx 570m is > "1920x1200", but the

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] LZMA - in or out? ([signoff] libarchive 2.6.0 )

2009-05-12 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009 12:31:19 schrieb Allan McRae: > Overall, I'd prefer to spend my time getting pkg deltas working which I > think is the better bandwagon to jump on... Sure deltas are quite usefull, too. OT: The recent approach is to automatically generate them within repo-add, right? So

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] LZMA - in or out? ([signoff] libarchive 2.6.0 )

2009-05-12 Thread Allan McRae
Thomas Bächler wrote: Pierre Schmitz schrieb: I am just doing some very simple test right now. (default compression preset) core (x86_64)(decompress time) none552M gzip186M12s xz121M17s I will add a test for extra later. Even though this might not

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] LZMA - in or out? ([signoff] libarchive 2.6.0 )

2009-05-12 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009 12:02:22 schrieb Thomas Bächler: > Anyone else in favor of moving to lzma? Related: lzma-compressed kernel > (support with 2.6.30 and newer), maybe lzma-compressed squashfs on the > live CDs (2.6.30 has lzma support, no idea if squashfs can use it already). I think we cou

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] LZMA - in or out? ([signoff] libarchive 2.6.0 )

2009-05-12 Thread Thomas Bächler
Pierre Schmitz schrieb: I am just doing some very simple test right now. (default compression preset) core (x86_64) (decompress time) none552M gzip186M12s xz 121M17s I will add a test for extra later. Even though this might not be

Re: [arch-general] New vi/vim/gvim in testing requires intervention

2009-05-12 Thread Alessandro Doro
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:50:02PM -0500, Dan McGee wrote: > > And a quick guess, it looks like the new vim package puts its colors here: > > /usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/ > > > > Any reason the old /usr/share/vim/ shouldn't be on the default runtimepath? > > Addendum: *any* plugins installed do no

Re: [arch-general] kdm3 crash on logout - no apparrent errors

2009-05-12 Thread Alessandro Doro
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

Re: [arch-general] Dovecot

2009-05-12 Thread Baho Utot
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: 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

Re: [arch-general] Opera Segfaults on x86_64 after kernel update

2009-05-12 Thread ludovic coues
Afaik, an Atom is an erlang term for variable without content. Usefull for error or message code. But I doen't know if opera is using erlang, or for other stuff called atom.

Re: [arch-general] New vi/vim/gvim in testing requires intervention

2009-05-12 Thread Tobias Kieslich
On Tue, 12 May 2009, Magnus Therning wrote: >>> And a quick guess, it looks like the new vim package puts its colors here: >>> /usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/ >>> >>> Any reason the old /usr/share/vim/ shouldn't be on the default runtimepath? > > Looking at other distros it seems using /usr/share/vim/

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] LZMA - in or out? ([signoff] libarchive 2.6.0 )

2009-05-12 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009 08:37:58 schrieb Grigorios Bouzakis: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 08:03:43AM +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009 02:06:31 schrieb Dan McGee: > > > Yes, of course. I think we can take some time to let it bake, as there > > > is not an immediate need, and