Re: [arch-general] [arch-releng] Inclusion of wvdial in the ISO

2010-06-28 Thread Jesse Jaara
I think there has to be some easy way to connect using a connection thats need some dialing, as here in Finland too these 3G usb modems are extreamly popular and lots of people whit no existing connection and even some whit exisiting connection are changeing to them. I don't know if the

Re: [arch-general] Last Updates w/kernel 2.6.33.4-1 - 2.6.34-2 broke radeon driver for RS690M cards

2010-06-28 Thread Paul Ezvan
Le dimanche 27 juin 2010 à 13:19 -0500, David C. Rankin a écrit : Guys, Just updated my laptop's spare drive and something in the last set up updates, which included the kernel, really affected the radeon driver badly. It's almost like I am back running in framebuffer mode. I'm

[arch-general] Finally found a solution to slow USB on HAL

2010-06-28 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
I have made a patch for /usr/share/hal/fdi/20-storage-methods.fdi to force async file transfer for vfat filesystems by commenting out flush and sync as valid options from the list. I checked the thing, now I'm getting the old high speed USB transfer. Do take a look at it, and comment. --

Re: [arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt

2010-06-28 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Shridhar Daithankar ghodech...@ghodechhap.net wrote: So why is phonon support disabled in Qt? if memory serves correct from gentoo days it has to do with qt phonon an kde phonon stepping on each others toes... however it might be for different reasons in arch.

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Victor Lowther victor.lowt...@gmail.com wrote: Questions, comments, flames, etc. welcome. why go this way instead of the other? (clarification why go deeper into bash instead of trying to posix-ify the scripts) -- Caleb Cushing

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Dan McGee
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Caleb Cushing xenoterrac...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Victor Lowther victor.lowt...@gmail.com wrote: Questions, comments, flames, etc. welcome. why go this way instead of the other? (clarification why go deeper into bash instead of

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Victor Lowther
On Jun 28, 2010, at 7:42 AM, Caleb Cushing xenoterrac...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Victor Lowther victor.lowt...@gmail.com wrote: Questions, comments, flames, etc. welcome. why go this way instead of the other? (clarification why go deeper into bash instead of

Re: [arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt

2010-06-28 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 28 Jun 2010 at 13:36 Caleb Cushing wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Shridhar Daithankar ghodech...@ghodechhap.net wrote: So why is phonon support disabled in Qt? if memory serves correct from gentoo days it has to do with qt phonon an kde phonon stepping on each others

Re: [arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt

2010-06-28 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Monday 28 June 2010 19:11:09 Peter Lewis wrote: Or alternatively, can you tell webkit to look for the separate phonon that's not provided with Qt when it builds? Thats not possible. The webkit build system for qt port, looks for qt config only. There is no way to provide it. OK, this can

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 28 Jun 2010 08:04 -0500, Dan McGee wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Caleb Cushing xenoterrac...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Victor Lowther victor.lowt...@gmail.com wrote: Questions, comments, flames, etc. welcome. why go this way instead of the

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Victor Lowther
On Jun 28, 2010, at 8:59 AM, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: On Mon 28 Jun 2010 08:04 -0500, Dan McGee wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Caleb Cushing xenoterrac...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Victor Lowther victor.lowt...@gmail.com wrote: Questions,

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 28 Jun 2010 09:13 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: On Jun 28, 2010, at 8:59 AM, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: On Mon 28 Jun 2010 08:04 -0500, Dan McGee wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Caleb Cushing xenoterrac...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Victor

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Victor Lowther
On Jun 28, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: On Mon 28 Jun 2010 09:13 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: On Jun 28, 2010, at 8:59 AM, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: On Mon 28 Jun 2010 08:04 -0500, Dan McGee wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Caleb Cushing

[arch-general] [signoff] udev-158-1

2010-06-28 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Hi guys, udev 158 Bugfixes. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Lukáš Jirkovský
Actually I see the point of doing this. Arch is a modern distribution with the newest software around so why stuck with shell constructs which are probably dozens of years old? Lukas

Re: [arch-general] Finally found a solution to slow USB on HAL

2010-06-28 Thread Pálffy András Gergely
Works here too. Great, thanks. On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan li...@itech7.comwrote: I have made a patch for /usr/share/hal/fdi/20-storage-methods.fdi to force async file transfer for vfat filesystems by commenting out flush and sync as valid options from the list. I

[arch-general] perl help missing DateTime::Format::ISO8601

2010-06-28 Thread Ionuț Bîru
Hi guys, i was working on updating mythtv and i have a problem finding the proper perl package. I'm not a perl guy myself and i found in aur perl-date-iso8601. The problem is that is not installed in the proper place. /usr/share/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/Date/ISO8601.pm and the check is done

Re: [arch-general] Finally found a solution to slow USB on HAL

2010-06-28 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Pálffy András Gergely pagesai...@gmail.com wrote: Works here too. Great, thanks. On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan li...@itech7.comwrote:  I have made a patch for /usr/share/hal/fdi/20-storage-methods.fdi to force async file transfer for

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Victor Lowther victor.lowt...@gmail.com wrote: For me, part of it is that bash is used pretty ubiquitously as the configuration and scripting language of choice. Changing that to posix sh in one of the main config files would be a big shift. there seems to be

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Isaac Dupree
On 06/28/10 09:35, Victor Lowther wrote: On Jun 28, 2010, at 7:42 AM, Caleb Cushing xenoterrac...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Victor Lowther victor.lowt...@gmail.com wrote: Questions, comments, flames, etc. welcome. why go this way instead of the other? (clarification

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Isaac Dupree m...@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org wrote: IIRC, Busybox shell can get notable speed boost by incorporating versions of tools like sed into the same busybox executable, such that it often doesn't have to fork and load other short-lived programs. I

Re: [arch-general] perl help missing DateTime::Format::ISO8601

2010-06-28 Thread Lukas Fleischer
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 07:27:27PM +0300, Ionu?? Bîru wrote: is this not the package that i need or the building is wrong? This is another package. I quickly built a perl-datetime-format-iso8601 package [1]. Didn't have any time to test it but I hope somehow it works anyway. [1]

Re: [arch-general] perl help missing DateTime::Format::ISO8601

2010-06-28 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Ionuț Bîru biru.io...@gmail.com wrote: perl-date-iso8601 firstly this package seems to be in need of an update... at worst the uri for the 'home page' is wrong secondly given your error you need ( cut see Lukas Fleischer's comment) generally speaking (though

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-28 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 28 Jun 2010 10:03 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: On Jun 28, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: Depends on what you define as Arch. I've heard that Arch is what you make of it. Hehe. I don't know if you could disqualify it from a difference of one file. For me, part

[arch-general] Kernel panic after installing avr tools

2010-06-28 Thread John Black
Maybe someone could help me out. I would like to report a bug but I am not quite sure what happened. I made a parallel port micro controller programmer on Sunday. Since my desktop system does not have a parallel port anymore [noticed this after I was done :( ] I connected the programmer to my

Re: [arch-general] Kernel panic after installing avr tools

2010-06-28 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 06/28/2010 08:20 PM, John Black wrote: Here are the machine specs: OS: Arch i686 (2-3 months old) Mainboard: VIA EPIA-M (I think this has a 1GHz CPU) RAM: 1GB Storage: LVM 2x 250GB special configuration: grub2, /boot on LVM installed: apache2, php5, mysql, samba, sshd Any takers :) ? from

Re: [arch-general] Kernel panic after installing avr tools

2010-06-28 Thread John Black
On 06/28/2010 07:20 PM, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 06/28/2010 08:20 PM, John Black wrote: Here are the machine specs: OS: Arch i686 (2-3 months old) Mainboard: VIA EPIA-M (I think this has a 1GHz CPU) from this list you missed the cpu. It is embedded so there is no choice, the CPU should be a VIA

Re: [arch-general] Kernel panic after installing avr tools

2010-06-28 Thread John Black
On 06/28/2010 07:20 PM, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 06/28/2010 08:20 PM, John Black wrote: maybe you hit into http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19733 ? mhh is there a way to install package onto a non-bootable system using pacman? I remember that binutils and glibc was updated, so if I could reverse

Re: [arch-general] Kernel panic after installing avr tools

2010-06-28 Thread Lukas Fleischer
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 07:58:36PM +0200, John Black wrote: mhh is there a way to install package onto a non-bootable system using pacman? Yes, just boot from a live CD, mount your root partition and either chroot into it or use the live CD's pacman(8) binary (and the --root argument) if the

Re: [arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt

2010-06-28 Thread Damjan Georgievski
I have removed flash after the latest problem with x86_64 release and I want to get youtube working ASAP. To that end, I downloaded nightly sources of webkit(not wanting to download the entire svn checkout) and built the qt port. However the video element is still missing, as tested on

Re: [arch-general] Kernel panic after installing avr tools

2010-06-28 Thread John Black
On 06/28/2010 08:01 PM, Lukas Fleischer wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 07:58:36PM +0200, John Black wrote: Yes, just boot from a live CD, mount your root partition and either chroot into it or use the live CD's pacman(8) binary (and the --root argument) if the non-bootable system's pacman

Re: [arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt

2010-06-28 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Shridhar Daithankar ghodech...@ghodechhap.net wrote: I have removed flash after the latest problem with x86_64 release and I want to get youtube working ASAP. chromium 5 suppport h264 and 6 (if you want to go there) supports webm... I've read KDE 4.5 is

Re: [arch-general] Finally found a solution to slow USB on HAL

2010-06-28 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Denis A. Altoé Falqueto's message of 2010-06-28 18:33:30 +0200: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Pálffy András Gergely pagesai...@gmail.com wrote: Works here too. Great, thanks. On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan li...@itech7.comwrote:  I have made a

Re: [arch-general] Finally found a solution to slow USB on HAL

2010-06-28 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Philipp Überbacher hollun...@lavabit.com wrote: Actually I was recently wondering a bit about the unmounting part, especially with USB sticks. I do have udev rules, taken from the wiki, in place that handle automatic mounting. There's also a unmounting part,

Re: [arch-general] Finally found a solution to slow USB on HAL

2010-06-28 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Denis A. Altoé Falqueto's message of 2010-06-29 00:09:11 +0200: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Philipp Überbacher hollun...@lavabit.com wrote: Actually I was recently wondering a bit about the unmounting part, especially with USB sticks. I do have udev rules, taken from the

Re: [arch-general] Finally found a solution to slow USB on HAL

2010-06-28 Thread Dave Reisner
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 07:09:11PM -0300, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Philipp Überbacher hollun...@lavabit.com wrote: Actually I was recently wondering a bit about the unmounting part, especially with USB sticks. I do have udev rules, taken from the wiki,

Re: [arch-general] Finally found a solution to slow USB on HAL

2010-06-28 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 6/28/10, Dave Reisner d...@falconindy.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 07:09:11PM -0300, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Philipp Überbacher hollun...@lavabit.com wrote: Actually I was recently wondering a bit about the unmounting part, especially with

Re: [arch-general] Finally found a solution to slow USB on HAL

2010-06-28 Thread Ross
On 29/06/10 08:52, Philipp Überbacher wrote: Excerpts from Denis A. Altoé Falqueto's message of 2010-06-28 18:33:30 +0200: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Pálffy András Gergely pagesai...@gmail.com wrote: Works here too. Great, thanks. On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Nilesh

Re: [arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt

2010-06-28 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 29 June 2010 00:08:15 Damjan Georgievski wrote: I have removed flash after the latest problem with x86_64 release and I want to get youtube working ASAP. To that end, I downloaded nightly sources of webkit(not wanting to download the entire svn checkout) and built the qt

Re: [arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt

2010-06-28 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 29 June 2010 01:55:39 Caleb Cushing wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Shridhar Daithankar ghodech...@ghodechhap.net wrote: I have removed flash after the latest problem with x86_64 release and I want to get youtube working ASAP. chromium 5 suppport h264 and 6 (if you

Re: [arch-general] Finally found a solution to slow USB on HAL

2010-06-28 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 06/29/2010 05:44 AM, Ross wrote: On 29/06/10 08:52, Philipp Überbacher wrote: Excerpts from Denis A. Altoé Falqueto's message of 2010-06-28 18:33:30 +0200: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Pálffy András Gergely pagesai...@gmail.com wrote: Works here too. Great, thanks. On Mon, Jun 28,

[arch-general] Bash Tcp

2010-06-28 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
Hi, After writing my skypechecker bash daemon which restarts skype if it crashes while pidgin is running or closes skype if pidgin crashes, I want to play with bash more, but this time using TCP connections :D But it seems /dev/tcp is not enabled on bash ??? How do I enable that ? --

Re: [arch-general] Bash Tcp

2010-06-28 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 06/29/2010 09:21 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Hi, After writing my skypechecker bash daemon which restarts skype if it crashes while pidgin is running or closes skype if pidgin crashes, I want to play with bash more, but this time using TCP connections :D But it seems /dev/tcp is not

[arch-general] Totem leaves dvd mounted after quitting

2010-06-28 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, This may be normal, but I thought we had moved beyond having to manually unmount CD/DVDs after use -- so I have either messed something up or there is a lingering problem. The setup - new i686 install updated through today. I never watch DVDs on the computer, but my son wanted to

Re: [arch-general] Last Updates w/kernel 2.6.33.4-1 - 2.6.34-2 broke radeon driver for RS690M cards

2010-06-28 Thread David C. Rankin
On 06/28/2010 04:44 AM, Damien Churchill wrote: On 28 June 2010 10:35, Paul Ezvanp...@ezvan.fr wrote: Le dimanche 27 juin 2010 à 13:19 -0500, David C. Rankin a écrit : Guys, Just updated my laptop's spare drive and something in the last set up updates, which included the kernel,

Re: [arch-general] Bash Tcp

2010-06-28 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 06/29/2010 09:27 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On 06/29/2010 09:21 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Hi, After writing my skypechecker bash daemon which restarts skype if it crashes while pidgin is running or closes skype if pidgin crashes, I want to play with bash more, but this time using