Re: [arch-general] A universal Operating System API - why don't we have it?

2009-12-20 Thread Pierre Chapuis
Le Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:10:29 +0100, Frédéric Perrin frederic.per...@resel.fr a écrit : Le vendredi 18 à 10:24, RedShift a écrit : Things like enumerating all hardware devices, configuring a network interface, drawing a window, ejecting the CD-ROM drive, getting

Re: [arch-general] A universal Operating System API - why don't we have it?

2009-12-20 Thread Laurie Clark-Michalek
You cannot write an application for windows and expect it to work on Linux. Java? The success of the language is based around the fact that almost every computer has the runtime installed, regardless of operating system. Does that not count as a global API? Laurie

Re: [arch-general] Automount

2009-12-20 Thread Baho Utot
On Sunday 20 December 2009 03:12:21 Robert Howard wrote: The path to the PolicyKit settings on my machine are: System Settings - Advanced Tab - PolicyKit Authorization. Ok I found that and I have two entries one for k3b and one for org.freedesktop What do I put there ? And What am I

Re: [arch-general] Thunderbird bugging with Lightning + Enigmail

2009-12-20 Thread Thomas Jost
Le 19/12/2009 21:25, Magnus Therning a écrit : May this be related to a GTK theme or something like this? How would I test this? What combination of TB theme and GTK theme are you using? Default TB theme, GTK theme: Aurora. My window manager is Awesome; I'm not using KDE, Gnome, XFCE or any

[arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.32.2-1

2009-12-20 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Hi guys, Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Arch Linux bugfixes/feature requests: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16855 # added CONFIG_PM_DEBUG http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17106 # added CONFIG_MMIOTRACE Arch Linux changes: - splitted kernel-headers to extra package If

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.32.2-1

2009-12-20 Thread Andrea Scarpino
2009/12/20 Tobias Powalowski t.p...@gmx.de: Hi guys, Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Arch Linux bugfixes/feature requests: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16855 # added CONFIG_PM_DEBUG http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17106 # added CONFIG_MMIOTRACE Arch Linux

Re: [arch-general] Automount

2009-12-20 Thread Robert Howard
Huh. I must have done this with a previous version of KDE or PolicyKit. Now, I don't have the same number of entries in that dialog and all of the ones that I remember setting are missing now. On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.comwrote: On Sunday 20 December 2009

[arch-general] stellarium and x with intel 965

2009-12-20 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi folks, Stellarium won't run properly in my ThinkPad R61 with Intel 965 graphic card. The main window with stars, labels, grids etc. looks fine, but all the dialogs and toolbars' icons are distorted and not readable at all. The screenshot is at [1]. stellarium 0.10.2-3 xorg-server

Re: [arch-general] stellarium and x with intel 965

2009-12-20 Thread LI Ye
Hey, I have the same problem. Is that related to the intel driver? stellarium 0.10.2-3 xf86-video-intel 2.9.1-1 xorg-server 1.7.3.901-1 libdrm 2.4.16-1 libgl 7.6-2 mesa 7.6-2 mesa 7.6-2 It's on my thinkpad T400, intel X4500MHD graphic card. In addition, after a recent upgrade(i think it's about