Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux makes the kde list!

2009-10-29 Thread Mike Shade
Earlier this month, mirrors.kernels.org also added Arch Linux to its available ISO mirrors. Movin' on up!

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Load_Cycle_Count and storage-fixup

2009-10-29 Thread Stefan Erik Wilkens
2009/10/29 Xavier : > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Stefan Erik Wilkens > wrote: >> Through experimentation, I suppose you can find a few values to work >> with. From the quick glance I took at storage-fixup, it seems to >> disable the feature completely. Does anybody know if it's more >> advan

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Load_Cycle_Count and storage-fixup

2009-10-29 Thread Xavier
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Michael Towers wrote: > Given the difficulty of finding the optimal solution to this problem, > I think I agree with the earlier suggestion to just monitor the > situation and report to the user if there is a problem - and provide a > useful account of how to handl

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Load_Cycle_Count and storage-fixup

2009-10-29 Thread Michael Towers
Given the difficulty of finding the optimal solution to this problem, I think I agree with the earlier suggestion to just monitor the situation and report to the user if there is a problem - and provide a useful account of how to handle it. I imagine it would not be too difficult to write cron scri

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Load_Cycle_Count and storage-fixup

2009-10-29 Thread Xavier
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Stefan Erik Wilkens wrote: > Through experimentation, I suppose you can find a few values to work > with. From the quick glance I took at storage-fixup, it seems to > disable the feature completely. Does anybody know if it's more > advanced than this or is this the

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux makes the kde list!

2009-10-29 Thread John Black
While we are on the subject of making it on a list. Opera 10 lists Arch on the distribution dropdown menu as well. -- John

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Load_Cycle_Count and storage-fixup

2009-10-29 Thread Stefan Erik Wilkens
2009/10/29 Aaron Griffin : > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Xavier wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Michael Towers >> wrote: >>> When I got a new laptop I investigated this problem a little and found >>> that with hdparm -B 254/255 the temperature went up quite >>> significantly. Thi

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux makes the kde list!

2009-10-29 Thread Angel Velásquez
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:28 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > >        Next time you have a kde4 bug to file, you will have a new Distribution > listed to file it under. Archlinux is now there! See: > > https://bugs.kde.org/wizard.cgi > IIRC this was noticed long time ago and Romashka said th

[arch-general] Arch Linux makes the kde list!

2009-10-29 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, Next time you have a kde4 bug to file, you will have a new Distribution listed to file it under. Archlinux is now there! See: https://bugs.kde.org/wizard.cgi -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-933

Re: [arch-general] ssh broken?

2009-10-29 Thread Tobias Kieslich
Thanks Thomas, sounds good. I think I'll wait until I update my server :P -T On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Thomas Bächler wrote: > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16886 > > I'll push a version with > [ -d /var/empty ] || mkdir -p /var/empty > in the init script tonight. This is the safest way IMO.

Re: [arch-general] ssh broken?

2009-10-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
Tobias Kieslich schrieb: Hi, I frequently ssh into localhost to sync files with unison. THat seems to be broken after the lates pacman -Syu which removed /var/empty. Is there sombody else who sees the same behavior? -T http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16886 I'll push a versio

Re: [arch-general] ssh broken?

2009-10-29 Thread Ray Kohler
The upgrade to openntpd removed it. The idea was to avoid sharing this directory between the two of them so neither could break the other, but unfortunately it created a painful upgrade path. There is a forum thread and (I think) a bug report on this. On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Tobias Kie

[arch-general] ssh broken?

2009-10-29 Thread Tobias Kieslich
Hi, I frequently ssh into localhost to sync files with unison. THat seems to be broken after the lates pacman -Syu which removed /var/empty. Is there sombody else who sees the same behavior? -T

Re: [arch-general] Encrypted ram disk?

2009-10-29 Thread Karol Babioch
On Do, 2009-10-29 at 16:37 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > This, and the manpage of the new cryptsetup release candidates. Thanks. I will try to set this up as soon as this version gets stable. -- Best regards, Karol Babioch signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Load_Cycle_Count and storage-fixup

2009-10-29 Thread Xavier
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > > Anyone happen to know how often the storage-fixup rules are updated? > My Eee drive isn't listed (mine does NOT have an SSD) so I'm not sure > what the hdparm params should be. > There might be a clue from the config file itself : http://g

Re: [arch-general] Encrypted ram disk?

2009-10-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
Karol Babioch schrieb: On Mi, 2009-10-28 at 18:50 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: ryptsetup has (in its latest release candidate) gained a feature where you can "suspend" a volume by killing the encryption key and later "resume" it by reentering the passphrase. Have you more information about t

Re: [arch-general] Encrypted ram disk?

2009-10-29 Thread Karol Babioch
On Mi, 2009-10-28 at 18:50 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > ryptsetup has (in its latest > release candidate) gained a feature where you can "suspend" a volume > by > killing the encryption key and later "resume" it by reentering the > passphrase. Have you more information about this? Would be gr

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Load_Cycle_Count and storage-fixup

2009-10-29 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Xavier wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Michael Towers > wrote: >> When I got a new laptop I investigated this problem a little and found >> that with hdparm -B 254/255 the temperature went up quite >> significantly. This may be a freak and I would love

Re: [arch-general] netcfg

2009-10-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
f...@kokkinizita.net schrieb: The one remaining problem is with netcfg 2.2.1. On my laptop I have the drivers e1000 and ipw2200 loaded in rc.conf, providing the devices eth0 and eth1 in fixed order. It's not guaranteed to provide a fixed order any more, you should really look into udev rules o

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Load_Cycle_Count and storage-fixup

2009-10-29 Thread Xavier
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Michael Towers wrote: > When I got a new laptop I investigated this problem a little and found > that with hdparm -B 254/255 the temperature went up quite > significantly. This may be a freak and I would love to know whether > there really is something behind it, b

Re: [arch-general] Why qemu/kqemu conflict to kvm ?

2009-10-29 Thread slubman
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:29:42 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > goodme...@gmail.com schrieb: >> OK, ok, I want install qemu+kqemu and KVM in my machine. >> Why does they conflict? >> >> >> Sometime, I want my virtual machine run faster, so KVM >> is a great choice. But sometime, I need simulate

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Load_Cycle_Count and storage-fixup

2009-10-29 Thread Michael Towers
When I got a new laptop I investigated this problem a little and found that with hdparm -B 254/255 the temperature went up quite significantly. This may be a freak and I would love to know whether there really is something behind it, but when I used -B 200 the temperature increase was clearly small

[arch-general] netcfg

2009-10-29 Thread fons
Hello all, I'm a new user of ArchLinux, so far installed on two machines (more wil follow). Coming from first Suse and then Fedora it was a big change, but I learned a lot in the process and have the nice feeling to be back in control of my machines (they also lost some weight). The one remainin

Re: [arch-general] Why qemu/kqemu conflict to kvm ?

2009-10-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
goodme...@gmail.com schrieb: OK, ok, I want install qemu+kqemu and KVM in my machine. Why does they conflict? Sometime, I want my virtual machine run faster, so KVM is a great choice. But sometime, I need simulate other CPU: ppc arm ... , so qemu is the best choice. Why does them con

[arch-general] Why qemu/kqemu conflict to kvm ?

2009-10-29 Thread goodmenzy
OK, ok, I want install qemu+kqemu and KVM in my machine. Why does they conflict? Sometime, I want my virtual machine run faster, so KVM is a great choice. But sometime, I need simulate other CPU: ppc arm ... , so qemu is the best choice. Why does them conflict? Can the community do so