Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux Release Question

2010-04-09 Thread Isaac Dupree
On 04/10/10 01:36, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: if you don't mind running old versions of software... which I do... I take it that you don't feel that "pacman -Syu" or if applicable something like "yaourt -Syu –aur" Will bring your Arch system as fully up to date as installing the latest Ubunt

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux Release Question

2010-04-09 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Apr 8, Isaac Dupree did say: > On 04/08/10 07:21, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > My take on it is that while it's always a good idea to be using a > > current install medium, with Arch it only matters that your system is > > able to become current via update. The releas

Re: [arch-general] xorg-server 1.8 - Wiki?

2010-04-09 Thread pyther
On 04/09/2010 09:41 AM, Jan de Groot wrote: Nothing has been done on documentation yet. Feel free to use the documentation from Fedora to add information to the Xorg input hotplugging wiki page. Alright! I've attempted to clean up the wiki and update it to reflect changes in 1.8. There was

Re: [arch-general] xorg-server 1.8 - Wiki?

2010-04-09 Thread pyther
On 04/09/2010 05:20 PM, Jan de Groot wrote: In case there's anything related to hwd in there: kill it. We don't support hwd as X.org configuration tool. The best autoconfiguration tool you can get is Xorg -configure, and these days even that is not needed anymore. Done. Any opinion on the

Re: [arch-general] xorg-server 1.8 - Wiki?

2010-04-09 Thread Jan de Groot
On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 16:01 -0400, pyther wrote: > Alright I started editing the wiki. The majority of the changes were > made under the configuration section. I pretty much copied verbatim > the > InputClasses section. If someone can look over them and possibly > improve > the wiki I would appr

Re: [arch-general] xorg-server 1.8 - Wiki?

2010-04-09 Thread pyther
On 04/09/2010 09:41 AM, Jan de Groot wrote: On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 09:34 -0400, pyther wrote: Has there been any work on a wiki entry for Xorg 1.8? I don't see anything on the main wiki. I just don't want to duplicate efforts. Cheers! Nothing has been done on documentation yet. Feel

Re: [arch-general] upgrade problems

2010-04-09 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 09.04.2010 16:15, schrieb Andrea Scarpino: >> :: kqemu: requires kernel26<2.6.33 >> :: madwifi: requires kernel26<2.6.33 >> >> I removed both these packages and the upgrade is proceeding. Just a heads >> up for others who actually need these packages. I don't know why I had >> madwifi as there i

Re: [arch-general] AUR comments gone?

2010-04-09 Thread Andrea Scarpino
On Friday 09 April 2010 16:16:56 David Rosenstrauch wrote: > Just noticed today that all the comments are gone from the AUR pages. > Is that intentional? Or if not, is there any way to get them restored? http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/a ur-general/2010-March/008528.html -- Andrea | deela

Re: [arch-general] keyboard not working in Xorg after package updates

2010-04-09 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 04/09/2010 09:54 AM, bardo wrote: 2010/4/9 David Rosenstrauch: * I'm getting a load of errors in the slim.log file that look like this: expected keysym, got XF86_Switch_VT_1 line 8 of xfree86 W T F ? ! ? Not sure it's the same problem, but I experienced something similar a while ago...

[arch-general] AUR comments gone?

2010-04-09 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Just noticed today that all the comments are gone from the AUR pages. Is that intentional? Or if not, is there any way to get them restored? Thanks, DR

Re: [arch-general] keyboard not working in Xorg after package updates

2010-04-09 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 04/09/2010 06:11 AM, Xavier Chantry wrote: On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:05 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: On Thu, April 8, 2010 9:51 pm, David Rosenstrauch wrote: So WTF?!?!?!? Hal sees the keyboard. And xev running inside the x session sees the keyboard. SO WHY ON EARTH IS MY KEYBOARD S

Re: [arch-general] upgrade problems

2010-04-09 Thread Andrea Scarpino
On Friday 09 April 2010 16:09:12 Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > Hi, > > I got this pacman error just now, when I wanted to upgrade to 2.6.33. > > # pacman -Su > > :: Starting full system upgrade... > > resolving dependencies... > looking for inter-conflicts... > error: failed to prepare transacti

[arch-general] upgrade problems

2010-04-09 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hi, I got this pacman error just now, when I wanted to upgrade to 2.6.33. # pacman -Su :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: kqemu: requires kernel26<2.6.33 :: madwifi: r

Re: [arch-general] keyboard not working in Xorg after package updates

2010-04-09 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:54 PM, bardo wrote: > 2010/4/9 David Rosenstrauch : >> * I'm getting a load of errors in the slim.log file that look like this: >> expected keysym, got XF86_Switch_VT_1 line 8 of xfree86 >> >> >> W  T  F  ? ! ? > > Not sure it's the same problem, but I experienced somethin

Re: [arch-general] keyboard not working in Xorg after package updates

2010-04-09 Thread bardo
2010/4/9 David Rosenstrauch : > * I'm getting a load of errors in the slim.log file that look like this: > expected keysym, got XF86_Switch_VT_1 line 8 of xfree86 > > > W  T  F  ? ! ? Not sure it's the same problem, but I experienced something similar a while ago... and I couldn't properly use my

Re: [arch-general] xorg-server 1.8 - Wiki?

2010-04-09 Thread Jan de Groot
On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 09:34 -0400, pyther wrote: > > Has there been any work on a wiki entry for Xorg 1.8? I don't see > anything on the main wiki. I just don't want to duplicate efforts. > > Cheers! Nothing has been done on documentation yet. Feel free to use the documentation from Fedora

[arch-general] xorg-server 1.8 - Wiki?

2010-04-09 Thread pyther
On 04/04/2010 04:56 PM, Jan de Groot wrote: Things todo before this merges to extra: - Add documentation about input configuration to our wiki, as hal is deprecated now - Ask nvidia for a driver that works without ignoreABI, I'm sure they can give us a timeframe for that - Add xorg.conf.d confi

Re: [arch-general] keyboard not working in Xorg after package updates

2010-04-09 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:05 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > On Thu, April 8, 2010 9:51 pm, David Rosenstrauch wrote: >> So WTF?!?!?!?  Hal sees the keyboard.  And xev running inside the x >> session sees the keyboard.  SO WHY ON EARTH IS MY KEYBOARD STILL DEAD IN >> MY X SESSIONS?!?!?  AG