Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] List of packages that could be rebuilt if you have nothing better to do...

2009-10-17 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
Allan McRae wrote: > Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: >> Allan McRae wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have created a list of packages the could use a rebuild but for >>> which there is no hurry. These include packages without the arch in >>> their filename, packages containing a .FILELIST file, packages

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] List of packages that could be rebuilt if you have nothing better to do...

2009-10-17 Thread Allan McRae
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: Allan McRae wrote: Hi, I have created a list of packages the could use a rebuild but for which there is no hurry. These include packages without the arch in their filename, packages containing a .FILELIST file, packages with man pages in /usr/man or uncompress

Re: [arch-general] kwrite: error while loading shared libraries: libqt-mt.so.3: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 ??

2009-10-17 Thread Eric Bélanger
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 12:08 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > New strange error while I troubleshoot the dead X intel card issue. As > mentioned, I have managed to get twm and openbox running in vncserver on the > box with the intel card. kde4 apps will run, but look terrible due to the > d

[arch-general] kwrite: error while loading shared libraries: libqt-mt.so.3: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 ??

2009-10-17 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, New strange error while I troubleshoot the dead X intel card issue. As mentioned, I have managed to get twm and openbox running in vncserver on the box with the intel card. kde4 apps will run, but look terrible due to the difference in color-depth, etc., so I was trying to get kde3/kate o

Re: [arch-general] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"

2009-10-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On Saturday 17 October 2009 07:33:56 pm Dario wrote: > > You have to reconfigure the kernel, then recompile it, and finally run > mkinitcpio. Configuring the kernel is not such an hard task (I used to do > it at every update on my previous Slackware box), besides, I think that > you can keep eve

Re: [arch-general] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"

2009-10-17 Thread Dario
Ciao In data domenica 18 ottobre 2009 00:54:16, David C. Rankin ha scritto: > > Well, I'm not an Arch kernel guru, but I guess you mean adding fbcon to > > the MODULES="" line in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf so it would read: [SNIP] > ERROR: module 'fbcon' not found You have to reconfigure the kernel

Re: [arch-general] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"

2009-10-17 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 6:54 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On Saturday 17 October 2009 09:20:40 am David C. Rankin wrote: >> Well, I'm not an Arch kernel guru, but I guess you mean adding fbcon to >>  the  MODULES="" line in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf so it would read: >> >> MODULES="fbcon intel_agp i915

Re: [arch-general] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"

2009-10-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On Saturday 17 October 2009 09:20:40 am David C. Rankin wrote: > Well, I'm not an Arch kernel guru, but I guess you mean adding fbcon to > the MODULES="" line in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf so it would read: > > MODULES="fbcon intel_agp i915" > > and then rebuilding with > > mkinitcpio -p kernel26 >

Re: [arch-general] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"

2009-10-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On Saturday 17 October 2009 03:20:36 pm Guus Snijders wrote: > David C. Rankin schreef: > > On Saturday 17 October 2009 05:53:12 am Dario wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> In data sabato 17 ottobre 2009 12:32:49, Dario ha scritto: > >>> Well, I usually had a FATAL kind of error in DMESG, due to a missing >

Re: [arch-general] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"

2009-10-17 Thread Guus Snijders
David C. Rankin schreef: On Saturday 17 October 2009 05:53:12 am Dario wrote: Hi In data sabato 17 ottobre 2009 12:32:49, Dario ha scritto: Well, I usually had a FATAL kind of error in DMESG, due to a missing module that I insisted on having loaded in rc.conf, but the "fatality" was re

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update

2009-10-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On Saturday 17 October 2009 11:41:31 am pascal wrote: > Le Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:13:34 -0500 > > "David C. Rankin" a écrit: > > Sure, the whole log is here: > > > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff/pacman.log.bz > >2 > > > > I have put all the files related to the bug in

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update

2009-10-17 Thread pascal
Le Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:13:34 -0500 "David C. Rankin" a écrit: > > Sure, the whole log is here: > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff/pacman.log.bz2 > > I have put all the files related to the bug in that directory: > > http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bu

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] List of packages that could be rebuilt if you have nothing better to do...

2009-10-17 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
Allan McRae wrote: > Hi, > > I have created a list of packages the could use a rebuild but for > which there is no hurry. These include packages without the arch in > their filename, packages containing a .FILELIST file, packages with > man pages in /usr/man or uncompress man and info pages. See

Re: [arch-general] Latest Kernel Update Breaks kdm with Radeonhd (abterm of greeter) -- Requires Removal of xorg.conf

2009-10-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On Saturday 17 October 2009 05:27:13 am Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:08:30 -0500 > > schrieb "David C. Rankin" : > > Guys, > > > > I almost had a heartattack tonight when I updated my laptop and X > > died. I though "oh no, here we go again -- the intel story all over > > again..."

Re: [arch-general] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"

2009-10-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On Saturday 17 October 2009 05:53:12 am Dario wrote: > Hi > > In data sabato 17 ottobre 2009 12:32:49, Dario ha scritto: > > Well, I usually had a FATAL kind of error in DMESG, due to a missing > > module that I insisted on having loaded in rc.conf, but the "fatality" > > was related to the attemp

Re: [arch-general] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"

2009-10-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On Saturday 17 October 2009 05:32:49 am Dario wrote: > In data sabato 17 ottobre 2009 06:27:55, David C. Rankin ha scritto: > > pascal, if that is so, why is it listed as the FATAL error? > > Well, I usually had a FATAL kind of error in DMESG, due to a missing module > that I insisted on having lo

Re: [arch-general] OpenOffice Calc - Setting Cell Background Color does Not Display on Screen - prints OK [SOLVED]

2009-10-17 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 09:04 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > On Friday 16 October 2009 11:22:44 pm Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > > > Please don't top-post. Anyhow, to the OP, are you using a dark theme of > > some sort? Openoffice has problems with not showing the correct colours if > > you're using some

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update

2009-10-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On Saturday 17 October 2009 05:50:29 am pascal wrote: > Le Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:30:53 -0500 > > "David C. Rankin" a écrit: > > Here is what is showing up in the errors.log that shows the problem > > started with the updates on 10/8 > > Could you post the 60-70 last lines of /var/log/pacman.log ?

Re: [arch-general] OpenOffice Calc - Setting Cell Background Color does Not Display on Screen - prints OK [SOLVED]

2009-10-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On Friday 16 October 2009 11:22:44 pm Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > Please don't top-post. Anyhow, to the OP, are you using a dark theme of > some sort? Openoffice has problems with not showing the correct colours if > you're using some sort of non-default (Gnome) theme. > Ng, I bet you are 10

Re: [arch-general] Question about the mailman package

2009-10-17 Thread Sebastian Köhler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Allan McRae wrote: > Of course, a working and fixed PKGBUILD always helps speed things along. Actually I'm working on a PKGBUILD right now :) But I'm not sure if the whole program should be installed in /opt or if the program should be splitted to /

Re: [arch-general] Question about the mailman package

2009-10-17 Thread Allan McRae
Sebastian Köhler wrote: Hi, I just tried to install the mailman package but I'm wondering if there is a good reason why this package installs all its content into /home/ ? Wouldn't /opt/ be a better place for a program like mailman? According to [1] the /home/ directory is off limits for packa

[arch-general] Question about the mailman package

2009-10-17 Thread Sebastian Köhler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I just tried to install the mailman package but I'm wondering if there is a good reason why this package installs all its content into /home/ ? Wouldn't /opt/ be a better place for a program like mailman? According to [1] the /home/ directory is

Re: [arch-general] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"

2009-10-17 Thread Dario
Hi In data sabato 17 ottobre 2009 12:32:49, Dario ha scritto: > Well, I usually had a FATAL kind of error in DMESG, due to a missing module > that I insisted on having loaded in rc.conf, but the "fatality" was related > to the attempt to load it, and didn't not harm the rest of the boot > sequen

Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update

2009-10-17 Thread pascal
Le Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:30:53 -0500 "David C. Rankin" a écrit: > > Here is what is showing up in the errors.log that shows the problem started > with the updates on 10/8 > Could you post the 60-70 last lines of /var/log/pacman.log ?

Re: [arch-general] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"

2009-10-17 Thread Dario
In data sabato 17 ottobre 2009 06:27:55, David C. Rankin ha scritto: > pascal, if that is so, why is it listed as the FATAL error? Well, I usually had a FATAL kind of error in DMESG, due to a missing module that I insisted on having loaded in rc.conf, but the "fatality" was related to the attemp

Re: [arch-general] Latest Kernel Update Breaks kdm with Radeonhd (abterm of greeter) -- Requires Removal of xorg.conf

2009-10-17 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:08:30 -0500 schrieb "David C. Rankin" : > Guys, > > I almost had a heartattack tonight when I updated my laptop and X > died. I though "oh no, here we go again -- the intel story all over > again..." > > So far performance is fine with the new setup. To be honest, I don't

Re: [arch-general] Intel AG 4965

2009-10-17 Thread David C. Rankin
On Friday 16 October 2009 04:33:59 am Alan Hoffmeister wrote: > OK, I'll try when I get home... > > On my work i could connect whit a WEP wireless... > > Maybe some problem whit the wpa stuff? > > Att, > Alan > Alan, On my archlinux laptop using wpa wireless with my Atheros card, I b

[arch-general] Something so ugly only a BASH scripter could love it.

2009-10-17 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, Here is an off-the-wall one for the BASH guys. Many times I need to get file or directory information from the command line with wildcards in the filename or path. I have always hated having to quote the filename or path to prevent shell expansion before it gets to my script. I was p