Re: [arch-general] Frustrated with Crappy looking Firefox and OpenOffice GTK & QT themes?

2009-11-11 Thread Robert Howard
Have you tried the qtcurve unified theme? It's very nice and the GTK theme matches the QT theme to just about every detail. On Nov 12, 2009 2:09 AM, "David C. Rankin" wrote: After mucking around trying to get firefox and openoffice to look right, I thought I would pass on a few tips. For those o

[arch-general] Frustrated with Crappy looking Firefox and OpenOffice GTK & QT themes?

2009-11-11 Thread David C. Rankin
After mucking around trying to get firefox and openoffice to look right, I thought I would pass on a few tips. For those of you that know already, just hit delete. The dull boxy appearance of both GTK and some Qt apps left me scratching my head for the right tools to fix the look. The normal qt

Re: [arch-general] arch x86_64 and i686 performance comparison

2009-11-11 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 12.11.2009 05:20, Sergey Manucharian wrote: > Excerpts from Tom's message of Thursday 12-Nov-09 04:20am: > > >> http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/ >> > Thank you for the direction, Tom! I'll give it a try. > > Sergey > > > It's also in [community].

Re: [arch-general] arch x86_64 and i686 performance comparison

2009-11-11 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Tom's message of Thursday 12-Nov-09 04:20am: > http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/ Thank you for the direction, Tom! I'll give it a try. Sergey

Re: [arch-general] аrch x86_64 and i686 performance comparison

2009-11-11 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Smith Dhumbumroong's message of Thursday 12-Nov-09 10:49am: > Better to install both Arch 32-bit and 64-bit on the same machine > (dual boot) and run the tests. I've already did it. > from my personal experience certain operations, such as video/music > encoding, is a _lot_ faster o

Re: [arch-general] аrch x86_64 and i686 performance comparison

2009-11-11 Thread Smith Dhumbumroong
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:11:02 -0700 Sergey Manucharian wrote: > Hi folks, > > The similar question most probably has been discussed many times, but > I really cannot find a clear answer. There are some obvious thinks > like 64-bit addressing, but how about math calculations performance? > > I've

Re: [arch-general] arch x86_64 and i686 performance comparison

2009-11-11 Thread Tom
Why don't you use the Phoronix Test Suit on both archs and compare the results. You can choose which benchmark-tests are to be performed, so you can see 'real world ' performance in different usage -scenarios. http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/

Re: [arch-general] аrch x86_64 and i686 perfor mance comparison

2009-11-11 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Sergey Manucharian wrote: > Hi folks, > > The similar question most probably has been discussed many times, but I > really cannot find a clear answer. There are some obvious thinks like > 64-bit addressing, but how about math calculations performance? > > I've set

[arch-general] Updated PKGBUILD for libftdi

2009-11-11 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
* Updated to latest 0.16 version * convert $startdir vars in PKGBUILD -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D Index: libftdi/trunk/PKGBUILD ===

Re: [arch-general] Segmentation fault in X after last upgrade

2009-11-11 Thread Tobias Kieslich
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009, Magnus Therning wrote: > Well, all I'm really interested in is finding out whether it's > xorg-server or xf86-video-nv which is broken. Then raise a bug, and > get it fixed :-) I just add here that I had a similar issue, which I *thought* I was able to track down to a broken

Re: [arch-general] kde4 tip - quicklaunch in your panel -- convenience at your fingertips!

2009-11-11 Thread Attila
At Mittwoch, 11. November 2009 15:04 Robert Howard wrote: > Have you guys ever heard of krunner? It really makes doing things and > launching apparently easy. You don't really need icons to launch programs. Krunner is very nice but for me it is more a replacement for katapult which i used under

Re: [arch-general] ?rch x86_64 and i686 performance comparison

2009-11-11 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 11.11.2009 17:53, Andreas Radke wrote: > Am Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:44:53 +0100 > schrieb Dieter Plaetinck : > > >> On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:18:12 +0100 >> Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: >> >> >>> You will probably see the >>> opposite of what you saw in the VMs. Especially for video encoding, >>>

Re: [arch-general] ?rch x86_64 and i686 performance comparison

2009-11-11 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 11.11.2009 17:44, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:18:12 +0100 > Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > > >> You will probably see the >> opposite of what you saw in the VMs. Especially for video encoding, >> x86_64 will be noticeably faster. >> > > why is that? > > I'm not a CP

Re: [arch-general] ?rch x86_64 and i686 performance comparison

2009-11-11 Thread Andreas Radke
Am Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:44:53 +0100 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck : > On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:18:12 +0100 > Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > > > You will probably see the > > opposite of what you saw in the VMs. Especially for video encoding, > > x86_64 will be noticeably faster. > > why is that? > shoul

Re: [arch-general] ?rch x86_64 and i686 performance comparison

2009-11-11 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:18:12 +0100 Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > You will probably see the > opposite of what you saw in the VMs. Especially for video encoding, > x86_64 will be noticeably faster. why is that?

Re: [arch-general] arch x86_64 and i686 performance comparison

2009-11-11 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Sven-Hendrik Haase's message of Wednesday 11-Nov-09 05:18pm MST: > If you want to make a serious comparison, set up > two fresh chroots at least. Better yet, set up two partitions and do > the tests using a native kernel as well. I will do that. But the strange think is that I cannot

Re: [arch-general] Howto compile in debugging symbols with makepks so I can use gdb?

2009-11-11 Thread Dan Vrátil
On Wednesday 11 November 2009 16:00:35 David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > Still chasing the keepassx problem. There are no debugging symbols in the > package so I used ABS to build from source, but of course there is no > debugging there either. What's the trick to compile so I can get a > meanin

Re: [arch-general] Permission problems - http is 0775, (root:http), I am in http -- still can't write??

2009-11-11 Thread fons
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 08:10:07AM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: > sheepishly -- Uh... Log out? I think we have an answer. Why log out? I > changed group permission hundreds of times without having to log out. What's > the catch here? Two different things: - Changing group permissions, takes

Re: [arch-general] ?rch x86_64 and i686 performanc e comparison

2009-11-11 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
Virtual machine performance is in no hell comparable to real machine performance, not even for comparing between each other. Current VM implementations generally run a lot faster on i686 guests because that's what they have been optimized for mainly. I always found my x86_64 VMs to be slower than i

[arch-general] аrch x86_64 and i686 performance comparison

2009-11-11 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi folks, The similar question most probably has been discussed many times, but I really cannot find a clear answer. There are some obvious thinks like 64-bit addressing, but how about math calculations performance? I've set up two identical virtual machines in vbox - one with Arch x86_64 and ano

Re: [arch-general] Segmentation fault in X after last upgrade

2009-11-11 Thread Nezmer
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 03:45:13PM +0100, Xavier wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:01 PM, David C. Rankin > wrote: > > > > Just be thankful you are not using ATI hardware where everything prior to > > the > > 2400 Series cards were deprecated to "Legacy" cards and all Linux support > > dropped i

Re: [arch-general] keepassx crashing?? (Ver 0.4.1-1 )

2009-11-11 Thread David C. Rankin
On Monday 09 November 2009 20:39:28 and regarding: > David C. Rankin wrote: > > Just a note; > > > > keepassx, which has worked reliably for years, began crashing today. I > > don't know whether it is keepassx, or qt (suspicion is qt). The errors > > are: > > > > 18:31 alchemy:~> keepassx > > Found

Re: [arch-general] Howto compile in debugging symbols with makepks so I can use gdb?

2009-11-11 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 09:00 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > Still chasing the keepassx problem. There are no debugging symbols in the > package so I used ABS to build from source, but of course there is no > debugging there either. What's the trick to compile so I can get a meaningful

Re: [arch-general] kde4 tip - quicklaunch in your panel -- convenience at your fingertips!

2009-11-11 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 11/11/2009 08:41 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: On Monday 26 October 2009 13:34:43 and regarding: I disagree. The problems (at least from my perspective) stems from the KDE devs' decision to "start fresh" with all their apps in order to "simplify" them and/or apply their new philosophy/approach

[arch-general] Howto compile in debugging symbols with makepks so I can use gdb?

2009-11-11 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, Still chasing the keepassx problem. There are no debugging symbols in the package so I used ABS to build from source, but of course there is no debugging there either. What's the trick to compile so I can get a meaningful gdb backtrace? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLL

Re: [arch-general] Segmentation fault in X after last upgrade

2009-11-11 Thread Xavier
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:01 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > > Just be thankful you are not using ATI hardware where everything prior to the > 2400 Series cards were deprecated to "Legacy" cards and all Linux support > dropped in March ;-) > > (performance difference between fglrx and ati 1066 FPS ve

Re: [arch-general] Permission problems - http is 0775, (root:http), I am in http -- still can't write??

2009-11-11 Thread David C. Rankin
On Friday 06 November 2009 17:20:09 and regarding: > On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 18:08, David C. Rankin > > wrote: > > Can anyone see the error in my logic? (diplomatically, of course) What's > > the trick? > > Did you log out and then log back in for the group changes to take effect? > sheepishly

Re: [arch-general] Permission problems - http is 0775, (root:http), I am in http -- still can't write??

2009-11-11 Thread David C. Rankin
On Friday 06 November 2009 17:22:32 and regarding: > On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 05:08:02PM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: > > 16:59 alchemy:/srv/http> grep http /etc/group > > http::33:david > > And what is the output of: > $ groups > ? > > Don't know if "gpasswd -a" is failing, I use: > # usermod -a

Re: [arch-general] kde4 tip - quicklaunch in your panel -- convenience at your fingertips!

2009-11-11 Thread Robert Howard
Have you guys ever heard of krunner? It really makes doing things and launching apparently easy. You don't really need icons to launch programs. Also, I don't understand all of the dolphin detractors. I think dolphin is near file manager perfection. Always felt that konquorer was like a big incohe

Re: [arch-general] Segmentation fault in X after last upgrade

2009-11-11 Thread David C. Rankin
> > > this really sucks. i have a perfectly fine fx5800 card. it performs > (performed) very well, sucks to have it labeled as "deprecated" and not > being able to actually use it decently on a modern system. > > Dieter > Just be thankful you are not using ATI hardware where everything prior

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

2009-11-11 Thread David C. Rankin
On Thursday 29 October 2009 12:35:50 and regarding: > 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

Re: [arch-general] kde4 tip - quicklaunch in your panel -- convenience at your fingertips!

2009-11-11 Thread David C. Rankin
On Monday 26 October 2009 13:34:43 and regarding: > I disagree. The problems (at least from my perspective) stems from the > KDE devs' decision to "start fresh" with all their apps in order to > "simplify" them and/or apply their new philosophy/approach of desktop > GUI design to them. > > Tha

Re: [arch-general] No sound after hal update

2009-11-11 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Christopher Daley wrote: > Have you tried running pulseaudio as a daemon?  e.g. "/etc/rc.d/pulseaudio > start' > This would likely be a fix for now... First, it's not recommended to run pulseaudio in system mode. Second it fails: Nov 11 08:35:27 bryma pulseaudio