[arch-general] [pkgstats] Patch to allow pkgstats to submit info through a proxy (if this is setted on http_proxy)

2009-12-21 Thread Angel Velásquez
Hi, I've been trying to submit my stats to the statistics page [1], then I realized that I wasn't submitting anything (I had pkgstats running on a cron). Then I decided to find the reason and it's simply I am behing a noisy and non-transparent proxy (ISA Server which is even worst). So, I

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

2009-12-21 Thread Emmanuel Gras
2009/12/20 Laurie Clark-Michalek bluepepp...@archlinux.us 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

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

2009-12-21 Thread Yonathan Dossow
On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 21:32 +0100, Tobias Powalowski wrote: 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

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

2009-12-21 Thread Angel Velásquez
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Laurie Clark-Michalek bluepepp...@archlinux.us wrote: 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

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

2009-12-21 Thread Ryan Sims
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:24 AM, RedShift redsh...@pandora.be wrote: Hi all It dawned on my that lots of industries have standards and companies generally keep to them. For example slabs of aluminium have standard sizes, building materials have well defined specifications, or take electrical

Re: [arch-general] [pkgstats] Patch to allow pkgstats to submit info through a proxy (if this is setted on http_proxy)

2009-12-21 Thread Angel Velásquez
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Pierre Schmitz pie...@archlinux.de wrote: Am Montag 21 Dezember 2009 15:13:53 schrieb Angel Velásquez: So, I decided to do a little patch to pkgstats, I've tested and now it's working .. (I am checking if the http_proxy env var is empty and else I am setting a

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

2009-12-21 Thread Laurie Clark-Michalek
2009/12/21 Angel Velásquez an...@archlinux.com.ve: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Laurie Clark-Michalek bluepepp...@archlinux.us wrote: 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

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

2009-12-21 Thread Chris Brannon
Laurie Clark-Michalek bluepepp...@archlinux.us writes: 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? The concept is called write once, run anywhere. An

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

2009-12-21 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le lundi 21 à 18:57, Laurie Clark-Michalek a écrit : And on the anal sex point... actually, I think it'd be better for the convocation as a whole if we dropped that analogy. Is that what they call a

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

2009-12-21 Thread Laurie Clark-Michalek
2009/12/21 Frédéric Perrin frederic.per...@resel.fr: Le lundi 21 à 18:57, Laurie Clark-Michalek a écrit : And on the anal sex point... actually, I think it'd be better for the convocation as a whole if we dropped that analogy.                                                                

[arch-general] Xorg changes / DRM modules

2009-12-21 Thread Andreas Radke
I've updated the git packages for nouveau and ati ddx driver packages in testing. I also updated the nouveau-drm package. This required to add the new nouveau-firmware package. It will be also needed to use kernel nouveau-drm module that will be introduced with kernel 2.6.33. I will keep updating

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Xorg changes / DRM modules

2009-12-21 Thread Nezmer
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:35:12PM +0100, Andreas Radke wrote: libdrm has been updated to 2.4.17 - this is breaking all radeon 3d stuff and will require changes in MESA when I understand the upstream devs right. Mesa7.7 is expected in a few days anyways and should make Radeon 3d stuff

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] nano 2.2.1-1

2009-12-21 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:09:05 +0100 schrieb Andreas Radke a.ra...@arcor.de: note: since 2.2.0 nano failed to open PKGBUILDs for me. after removing old /etc/nanorc and replacing it with the new one it works again. I'm answering to arch-general because I can't write to arch-dev-public. This issue

[arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32

2009-12-21 Thread Frank Hale
I was using the testing kernel 2.6.32 without an issue but then when the kernel went to core my system would no longer boot. It would start to boot half way then just go dead. I don't have any error messages to post because the screen went blank. Grub was working fine as far as I can tell. I had

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32

2009-12-21 Thread Frank Hale
I do have an ATI card. I'll try that thanks! I did notice that 2.6.32 would boot into a graphical mode shortly after it started booting even though I didn't have one set in my GRUB conf. 2.6.31 didn't do this. Thanks for the help! On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Ian-Xue Li da.mi.spi...@gmail.com

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32

2009-12-21 Thread Frank Hale
Adding nomodeset to my kernel boot line in Grub fixed the problem. Thanks! On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Frank Hale frankh...@gmail.com wrote: I do have an ATI card. I'll try that thanks! I did notice that 2.6.32 would boot into a graphical mode shortly after it started booting even though