Re: [arch-general] dmraid disk failure - howto rebuild new disk - gparted hates Me :-(

2009-06-12 Thread David C. Rankin
David C. Rankin wrote: > Listmates, > > My Seagate drives are dropping like flies with less than 1400 hours of > run > time. (that's less than 58 days of service!) > > That's pretty much where I am now. My next thought is to just use dd to > copy > the partitions over. I have open

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.30-2

2009-06-12 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Am Freitag 12 Juni 2009 schrieb Adrian C.: > > It seems to be a bug in the wmi driver which affects acer-wmi when > > stack protection is enabled. Patch is available somewhere on the LKML > > and is waiting to go upstream. > > ...and here is the patch for all interested or affected > http://patchwo

[arch-general] dmraid disk failure - howto rebuild new disk - gparted hates Me :-(

2009-06-12 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, My Seagate drives are dropping like flies with less than 1400 hours of run time. (that's less than 58 days of service!) Latest is a 750G (ST3750330AS) that was part of the second raid set on one of my boxes running Arch. Seagate sent a new one and now I am trying to figure out

[arch-general] Making logs readable by other user than root

2009-06-12 Thread Magnus Therning
Is there a good HOWTO on making syslog-ng create files with owner:group other than root:root? I'd like to make it possible for some users to read the logs in /var/log. Any good suggestion for an already existing group to use? I was thinking of either log or wheel, any thoughts? /M -- Magn

[arch-general] resolution stuck at 640x480

2009-06-12 Thread prad
this is on an older machine 450MHz with 128M ram and 3D rage card - working off an lcd monitor for whom i've had to set horizsync 30-35 vertrefresh 50-100 (or it tries to overshoot the monitor's capabilities and the screen locks up with an outofrange error for the horizsync. everything installed

[arch-general] Trouble building gmime

2009-06-12 Thread Baho Utot
Any One seen this error ? bin/install -c .libs/uudecode /build/pkg/bin/uudecode make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/build/src/gmime-2.2.21/src' make[2]: Leaving directory `/build/src/gmime-2.2.21/src' make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/src/gmime-2.2.21/

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.30-2

2009-06-12 Thread Thomas Bächler
Adam Lantos schrieb: Hi, I want to nominate a patch for arch 2.6.30 kernel, intel/KMS needs this patch for output detection to work properly: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel.git;a=commit;h=03d6069912babc07a3da20e715dd6a5dc8f0f867 See http://lists.freedesktop.org/arch

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.30-2

2009-06-12 Thread Adrian C.
It seems to be a bug in the wmi driver which affects acer-wmi when stack protection is enabled. Patch is available somewhere on the LKML and is waiting to go upstream. ...and here is the patch for all interested or affected http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/29082/ -- Adrian C. (anrxc) | an

Re: [arch-general] Package groups

2009-06-12 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > Is it OK for a package in [community] to  be part of a package group? > AFAIK package groups dont exist in [community] or if they do they are > not the same > as the ones in extra. > eg. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15053 > http://repos

[arch-general] Package groups

2009-06-12 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
Is it OK for a package in [community] to be part of a package group? AFAIK package groups dont exist in [community] or if they do they are not the same as the ones in extra. eg. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15053 http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/community/gnome/empathy/PKGBUILD?view=markup&

Re: [arch-general] namcap.log in clean chroot

2009-06-12 Thread Baho Utot
Aaron Griffin wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Baho Utot wrote: On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 11:07 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: Baho Utot wrote: On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 10:27 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: Baho Utot wrote: I have install namcap to my clean chroot a

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.30-2

2009-06-12 Thread Adam Lantos
Hi, I want to nominate a patch for arch 2.6.30 kernel, intel/KMS needs this patch for output detection to work properly: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel.git;a=commit;h=03d6069912babc07a3da20e715dd6a5dc8f0f867 See http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2009-Jun

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.30-2

2009-06-12 Thread Adrian C.
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Remove binary modules from extra? Guys opinions on this? madwifi -> AUR # supported by ath5k and ath9k normally Hi, ath5k seems to be solid. In all my testing it proved to be stable, even with injection. However last time I checked they still did

Re: [arch-general] Openbox - great lightweight desktop, similar to icewm, but better in several regards

2009-06-12 Thread Louis Brazeau
2009/6/12 Frédéric Perrin : > I'm surprised that in this thread, nobody mentionned FVWM yet. It's a > bit "the great old one", one upon which quite a number of other WM are > based, but it is still actively developped. It is maybe a bit bigger > that other WM mentionned, but we are far from KDE / G

Re: [arch-general] Openbox - great lightweight desktop, similar to icewm, but better in several regards

2009-06-12 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le Mercredi 10 à 9:46, David C. Rankin a écrit : > Listmates, > > After reading the newsletter article about old boxes with > minimal hardware collecting dust in a closet, I thought about the > openbox desktop I had just given a run-through and thought I would > pass it along. You have severa

Re: [arch-general] namcap.log in clean chroot

2009-06-12 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: >> >> On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 10:27 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: >> >>> >>> Baho Utot wrote: >>> I have install namcap to my clean chroot and it gives me this error: Error: Problem reading *.pkg.tar.gz usage:

Re: [arch-general] namcap.log in clean chroot

2009-06-12 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Baho Utot wrote: > On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 11:07 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: >> Baho Utot wrote: >> > On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 10:27 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: >> > >> >> Baho Utot wrote: >> >> >> >>> I have install namcap to my clean chroot and it gives me this error: >> >

[arch-general] Mutt - mailbox timestamp problem

2009-06-12 Thread Alessandro Doro
Hi, today it seems that mutt has a problem with my mailboxes. After exiting the mtime is not touched; only atime and ctime are updated. Is anyone experiencing this? $ stat mymail.mb File: `mymail.mb' Size: 20271475Blocks: 39648 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 803h/2051d

Re: [arch-general] 1080p playback

2009-06-12 Thread Marc Deop i Argemí
On Thursday 04 June 2009 23:30:45 Paulo Santos wrote: > Meaning that even without a vdpau compatible card, a decent enough CPU > (2,4 GHz in my case) plays 1080p without cutting down on quality Does that mean I'd be able to watch 1080p movies on my Intel Centrino Duo 1,86Ghz + Intel GMA950? I c

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.30-2

2009-06-12 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Am Freitag 12 Juni 2009 schrieb Thomas Bohn: > On 2009-06-12 12:19 +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14958 > > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14958 > > You really fixed that twice? *scnr* > > Is it just me or does someone else notice that iwconfig tells me the > str

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.30-2

2009-06-12 Thread Thomas Bohn
On 2009-06-12 12:19 +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14958 > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14958 You really fixed that twice? *scnr* Is it just me or does someone else notice that iwconfig tells me the strength of my wifi connection no longer in form of "50/100"

[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.30-2

2009-06-12 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Hi guys, kernel26-2.6.30-2 please signoff, both arches. And tell me your opinion about madwifi and openswan-klisp Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Arch Linux bugfixes: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15067 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14879 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/1